Quotes / Muse

Quotes from the band's music

"They will not force us!
They will stop degrading us!
They will not control us!
We will be victorious!"

— "Uprising"

"Change everything you are
And everything you were
Your number has been called.
Fights and battles have begun
Revenge will surely come
Your hard times are ahead."

— "Butterflies and Hurricanes"

"And I've had recurring nightmares
That I was loved for who I am
And missed the opportunity
To be a better man."

— "Hoodoo"

"Wash me away
Clean your body of me
Erase all the memories
They'll only bring us pain
And I've seen all I'll ever need."

— "Citizen Erased"

Quotes about the band

Here comes their razorblade stuffed-toy singer Matt Bellamy, hanging from the chandelier of his overblown musical ability, electrodes screwed into his brain, singing like a harpy on fire, playing the funeral mass organ with his toes. Here’s bassist Chris Wolstenholme and drummer Dominic Howard sounding like Edvard Munch’s backing band. And here unfolds the profane, expressionist, hyper-thrilling vista feared by all those hoping the band were just Radiohead with a Freddie Mercury complex.

— NME reviewing Origin of Symmetry

And his laugh – it’s conspiratorial, it’s anticipatory. In the 1981 play Amadeus, American actor Tom Hulce played Mozart like he was a man who took manic delight in every sparrow that farted, every curlicue of smoke that rose from his candle. There is something of that to Bellamy. He’s exactly what a rockstar should be: i.e. someone who doesn’t seem to perceive reality in the same way as the rest of humanity. A little bit celestial. A little bit neuropathological.

— NME on Matt Bellamy