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I am in no way affiliated with Mat or his people,
this is just an appreciation blog.
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Photos are not mine unless otherwise stated.
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"I think everyone from Oregon—I’ve noticed this as I leave—we’re incredibly pretentious about our state. [laughs] So even though I live in Tennessee, I’m always like, ‘In Oregon the salmon is much bigger and the Pinot is way better and the coffee! And everyone is so much smarter.’"
— Mat Kearney x
"My artistic goal was to write something that’s one hundred percent real and true to me and to this world. I tried to touch on truths that really connect with people from every avenue of life. Ultimately, when you write from a vantage point of faith, humility and openness to the world around you, people have to respond because those same truths are instilled in them. Honestly, I don’t have any agenda other than being sincere, real, and passionate about these songs and the music I make."
— Mat Kearney
"I grew up listening to Tribe Called Quest, and I was this rough kid who sold pot and graffitied trains with spray paint—I was that kid. When I barely got into college, the one thing I could do was write, so I became an English major. There was this whole poetry side of what I was doing, and it turned into this spoken-word style performance thing. I didn’t start writing music until I was a sophomore in college. I would steal my roommate’s guitar and sit on the front porch and kind of blend this weird spoken word and these little melodies over simple chords; that really started my whole journey as a musician."
— Mat Kearney (via still-illraisetheflag)
