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Matthew Sweet Biography

Sidney Matthew Sweet (born October 6, 1964) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. He was part of the burgeoning music scene in Athens, Georgia, during the 1980s before gaining commercial success in the 1990s. His twelfth and thirteenth records, Tomorrow Forever and Tomorrow's Daughter, were released in 2017 and 2018, respectively.

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The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

College, Growing Up, Imagination, Openness, Way

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.

Birthday, Brian, Dykes, Met, Party, Stage

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

Curious, Explore, Influenced, Leave, Mind Your Own Business, Songwriting

Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.

Bigger, Fun, Girlfriend, Played, Shows, Success

You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

Art, Bringing, Down, Everything, Laughing, Media

They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

Art, Lines, Media, Reciting, Words

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

Birthday, Party, Plans, Summer

So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say 'OK, this is for my fans in Japan. They'll be nice and get into it and have fun. ' And it was the first record I made at my home studio.

Fans, Fun, Letting Go, Nice, Say, Studio

I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.

Know, Money, Perspective, Records, Success

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

Label, Labels, Question, Record, Three, Years

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

Coming, Kind, Label, Labels, Records, Waiting

I'm not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there's a god who would understand.

Holy, Killing, Land, Men, Understand

I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.

Fun, Loved, Records, Sense, Studios, Success

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

Down, Figured, Genius, Name, Names, Planes

I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.

Appreciate, Art, Artist, Different, Record, Special

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

Appeals, Japan, People, Play, Shows