#Muse quotes

[sunburnacoustic]

I first came into contact with musical instruments when I was around 6 years old, when I started playing with the piano we had at home as a toy, so I didn't learn how to play formally. I started playing an instrument purely for my own enjoyment.

My parents had such a painful past, so they tried to create an environment where I could discover the joy of music in a more natural way. They didn't pressure me to take piano or guitar lessons every day, but instead encouraged me to just naturally start playing with the instruments around me when I liked them, and eventually discover the joy of playing them myself. Thanks to that, my relationship with music is still very positive. I'm very grateful to my parents in that sense.

I did learn some rudimentary playing techniques on the clarinet during music lessons at school when I was in primary school, though. That's the only time I've ever had any kind of formal lessons on an instrument.

Everything else was self-taught, whether it was the guitar, which I started playing when I was about 11 or 12 out of curiosity, or the Hammond organ, Mellotron and synths, which I gradually got into after I started playing in school bands.

—Matt Bellamy on his relationship with music growing up | Rockin' On Magazine, Sept 2012, interviewed by Yukiko Kojima

taken from @cherrylng's scans here.

[bliss-tastic]

fave Matt quote? saw you reblogging them ehehe

from the post it was hard to choose, but it's the "I'd go looking for a woman, if I didn't find any, I think I'll be satisfied with Dominic." Gets me everytimee

but overall, I love how in an interview in 2009 he just starts describing how to kill a chicken. Completely unhinged behaviour which i LOVE

Thank u <3

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[deadlypoetacademia]

[arylleth]

to love someone is firstly to confess: i'm prepared to be devastated by you. by A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

[389]

Musings from Anna Fusco

[lipikkawrites]

A lot will go wrong before everything goes right.

Keep moving forward.

-@lipikkawrites

[metamorphesque]

"War and Peace", Leo Tolstoy (translated by Constance Garnett)

[ao3-crack]

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[rubanacabana]

mango-flavored bravery (ink) and some kinda solar eclipse (error)

🍁🧸☕🍂 happy sweet november everyone!! staying comfortable this season, I hope? (ㅅ´ ˘ `)₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ to celebrate this in-between weather, please enjoy two pieces that come in a pair, ft. my favorite character duo (a.k.a. my muses for like, ever TAT AHHH) !!

ink sans by the illustrious @comyet, error sans by the ultra-talented @loverofpiggies!

[sunburnacoustic]

Stairway to Devon

An article on the documentary on BBC Radio 1 narrated by Steve Lamacq (Radio 1's Evening Sessions), broadcast on 31 May 2004.

Muse's Matt Bellamy believes we've been cloned from aliens, and that we receive subliminal instructions from the government via mobile phones. 'Stairway to Devon' takes you into the peculiar world of Muse and the influences behind their latest album, 'Absolution'. 

Dan Martin - NME "I think the reason that we started talking about 'Absolution' in such hyperbolic terms is because everything about the record is completely to the extreme. Certainly the first track, 'Apocolypse Please', it actually says 'this is the end of the world'.

Matt Bellamy - Muse "'Origin Of Symmetry' came from a book called 'Hyperspace'. When I read that book I found that the truths about science are sometimes more fantastical and exciting than some of the lies of previous religions."

Verity Sharp - BBC Radio 3 "There's a lot of feeling in there. There's a real commitment and he's being quite honest about what he wants to do because he is going to get a lot of criticism for doing this sort of thing but he's got the guts to do it and I respect that. I think he's being harsh on himself to say that he's a chimpanzee in relation to Rachmaninov - he shouldn't put himself down."

Matt Bellamy - Muse "I'd rather set my sights as a musician way higher than what I think I can ever achieve. I know that those piano players are so far beyond my own mathematical and emotional understanding of music, that I like having a goal. I know that I'll never get there but it means that I'll keep trying."

Dennis Smith - Muse Manager "When I went first to see them at a little show in a Cornish venue I recognised that there was something very special. Matthew has an incredible range of thoughts, he's got such a restless, imaginative and creative mind. An older head on much younger shoulders is how I've always seen him."

Dan Martin - NME "They don't care and, to be fair, they never have cared. He goes around talking about space and the end of the world. If you're going to talk about these things then you have to be prepared that people are going to think it's ridiculous... and people do."

External links on here link to a recent Muse live review, muse.mu and Jim Marrs' website.

[words-at-night]

[septemberkisses]

— Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell The Wolves I'm Home

[thehummingbee20]

someone who can take your breath away and yet fill your lungs with air when you feel breathless.

[arylleth]

i have a longing that's killing me.

mahmoud darwish, memory for forgetfulness

[lucabyte]

Different standards