Dave Matthews Quotes

Don't you rob yourself of what you're feeling; don't rob yourself of all that you could be. ~ Dave Matthews Band

I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band ~ John Mayer

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions. ~ Dave Matthews

Sitting still as stone watching - watching
People walking by you wondering why
No one ever stops to talk or thinks about it - if they ever did ~ Dave Matthews

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay. ~ Dave Matthews Band

The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political. ~ Dave Matthews

To change the world, Start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all. ~ Dave Matthews

I say my hell is the closet I'm stuck inside. ~ Dave Matthews

My reaction to Radiohead isn't as simple as jealousy. Jealousy just burns; Radiohead infuriate me. But if it were only that, I wouldn't go back and listen to those records again and again. Listening to Radiohead makes me fell like I'm a Salieri to their Mozart. Yorke's lyrics make me want to give up. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song - let alone album after album. ~ Dave Matthews

We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a ... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked! ~ Dave Matthews

Lying under this spell you cast on me Each moment The more I love you. ~ Dave Matthews

Remember that there are hundreds of thousands of things you can eat that are not cheese. ~ Dave Matthews

You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you. ~ Dave Matthews

Are you looking for answers, to questions under the stars? If along the way you are growing weary, You can rest with me until a brighter day It's okay ~ Dave Matthews

I grew up in a very politically aware family. My mother always taught me to question everything, never believing anything simply at face value - especially the nicest, most adamant politicians. ~ Dave Matthews

Love, you drive me to distraction. ~ Dave Matthews

It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle. ~ Dave Matthews

Why won't you run in the rain and play, let the tears splash all over you? ~ Dave Matthews

Would you not like to be, sittin' on top of the world with your legs hanging free? ~ Dave Matthews

For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way. But I know those roads. I still have the experience behind me. ~ Dave Matthews

There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together. ~ Dave Matthews

Six senses keeping
Five around a sense of self ~ Dave Matthews

I will go in this way
And find my own way out ~ Dave Matthews Band

Digging a ditch where madness gives a bit
Digging a ditch where silence lives
Digging a ditch for when I'm old
Digging this ditch my story's told
Where all these troubles weigh down on me will rise ...
Where all these questions spinning round my head will die ~ Dave Matthews

Troubles, they may come and go, but good times, they're the gold. ~ Dave Matthews Band

Sometimes it's nice to be able to reflect on the music itself and then write lyrics that I feel anyone can relate to. It's not my dreaming tree that is dead. The feeling of a loss of hope is universal. There are moments that we've all felt a little bit of it, so I don't think it is something that is too hard to identify with. ~ Dave Matthews

So the story goes, so I'm told
The people he knew were
Less than golden hearted
Gamblers and robbers
Drinkers and jokers, all soul searchers
Like you and me ~ Dave Matthews

Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters. ~ Dave Matthews Band

I don't feel like I'm standing in a position where I have some right above other people to say what I think. We should all be talking to each other about what we think is important - whether we're in politics, or whether we're checking out at a grocery store. We shouldn't put walls up between each other. ~ Dave Matthews

The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black. ~ Dave Matthews

We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us. ~ Dave Matthews

For a moment this good time would never end
You and me
Just wasting time
I was kissing you
You were kissing me love
From good day into a moonlight ~ Dave Matthews

Life it seems a struggle between what we think and what we see ~ Dave Matthews

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing. ~ Dave Matthews

A vote for change is a vote for a stronger, safer, healthier America. A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America. It is our duty to this beautiful land to let our voices be heard. That's the reason for the tour. That's why I'm doing it. ~ Dave Matthews

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population. ~ Dave Matthews

I think we have to be active in teaching our children, and teaching each other. We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. We have a military, but what if there was a department devoted entirely and truthfully to finding peaceful resolutions? ~ Dave Matthews

I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere. ~ Dave Matthews

And so it easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a teenager to enter the kingdom of heaven listening to the Dave Matthews Band. ~ Douglas Wilson

If I go before I'm old, Oh brother of mine please don't forget me if I go. Bartender please, fill my glass for me? With the wine you gave Jesus that set him free, after three days in the ground. ~ Dave Matthews

The space between the tears we cry is the laughter that keeps us coming back for more ... ~ Dave Matthews Band

I was just wondering if you'd come along to hold up my head when my head won't hold on. ~ Dave Matthews

What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me ~ Dave Matthews

Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die ~ Dave Matthews

If you've got a question just get in line
'Cause my intentions are to make you mine
I'll take care of everything
All you need, friend, is right here
... And if you're lost I will find your way
Give me your soul, friend, it's okay ~ Dave Matthews

People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals. ~ Dave Matthews

Strange evolution, that people have come to believe
that we are its greatest achievement
when really we're just a collection of cells overrating themselves ~ Dave Matthews Band

I have no time to justify you, fool, youre blind, step aside from me ~ Dave Matthews Band

Wake up naked drinking coffee
Making plans to change the world
While the world is changing us
It was good good love
You used to laugh under the covers
Maybe not so often now
But the way I used to laugh with you
Was loud and hard ~ Dave Matthews

Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a concert to support small local farms in the U.S. ~ Rebecca Pidgeon

Out of the darkness comes light like a flash
You think you can, you think you can
Sometimes that is the problem
Dream little darling dream ~ Dave Matthews

Everything good needs replacing ~ Dave Matthews

If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum and gets away from you, that's a good sign. ~ Dave Matthews

When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other. ~ Dave Matthews

You and I, we're not tied to the groundNot falling but rising like rolling around Eyes closed above the rooftops Eyes closed, we're gonna spin through the stars ~ Dave Matthews Band

I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me. ~ Dave Matthews

We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten. ~ Dave Matthews

My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them. ~ Dave Matthews

Life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set
Spot in the middle
Static fade, statistic bit
And soon I fade away, fade away ~ Dave Matthews

I don't understand at best, I cannot speak for all the rest. But you may find a lifetime's passed you by. Every dog has its day, every day has its way Of being forgotten. ~ Dave Matthews

I know I have a very unusual style of playing, where other more recognized and technically proficient players might look at me and wonder what the heck I'm doing. The purpose of my learning to play the way I do was more to accompany my singing. I figured out a style where I'm mentally playing the drums over a simple melody. ~ Dave Matthews

Everyday should be a good day to die ~ Dave Matthews

I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've started to try and write more traditionally, but for whatever reason, I tend toward trying to find something that sounds more like a pattern to me. ~ Dave Matthews

I can't believe that we would
lie in our graves
Wondering if we had
spent our living days well
I can't believe that we would
lie in our graves
Dreaming of things that we
might have been ~ Dave Matthews Band

And when you wake, you will fly away, holding tight to the legs of all your angels. Goodbye, my love, into your blue, blue eyes. ~ Dave Matthews

I walk into this room
All eyes on me now
But I do not know the people inside
Look straight through me these eyes
Seeking more wisdom
Than I have to give away ~ Dave Matthews

I like Daughtry, I like Nickelback, I like Dave Matthews. I like Beyonce - she's a really good entertainer. ~ Grace Slick

You seek up an emotion and your cup is overflowing,
you seek up an emotion sometimes your well is dry ~ Dave Matthews

Leave the big door open, everyone'll come around ... ~ Dave Matthews

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do. ~ Dave Matthews

Nothing is here to stay
Everything has to begin and end
A ship in a bottle won't sail
All we can do is dream that the wind will blow us across the water
A ship in a bottle set sail ~ Dave Matthews

San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it. ~ Dave Matthews

You crush me with the things you do, I do for anything too ... each moment the more I love you. ~ Dave Matthews

Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that. ~ Dave Matthews

The melodies are always the most important part to me. I am pulled more to the groove than the chord progression. After you find the groove, you find the most simple chord progressions and then sit inside that groove. ~ Dave Matthews

So let us sleep outside tonight, Lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely. ~ Dave Matthews

So I wonder this, as life billows smoke inside my head This little game where nothing is sure Why would you play by the rules? Who did? You did. You ... ~ Dave Matthews

The future is no place to place your better days ~ Dave Matthews Band

I know in my mind
I would leave you now
If I had the strength to
I would leave you up
To your own devices
Will you not talk
Can you take pity
I don't ask much
But won't you speak
Please. ~ Dave Matthews Band

South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself. ~ Dave Matthews

If I could tour with anyone, I'd go with either Maroon 5, or Dave Matthews. No lets go with Sting, he will be my all time favorite ... wait no I want to go on tour with the Police. ~ Ryan Cabrera

Oh look at how she listens She says nothing of what she thinks She just goes stumbling through her memories Staring out on to Grey Street ~ Dave Matthews

I always like to have an atlas just so that I can find things out. It's always good to have an almanac; those sort of things. ~ Dave Matthews

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me. ~ Dave Matthews

The brightest star on a cloudless night
Some kind of miracle, almost empty sky ...
Just as the bite of the blade wakes the absent mind
There's time to dream and there's time to open your eyes ~ Dave Matthews

but, like an alcoholic or a fan of the Dave Matthews Band, he ultimately couldn't control his self-destructive addiction. ~ Nick Offerman

Some might tell you there's no hope in hand
Just because they feel hopeless
But you don't have to be a thing like that
You be a ship in a bottle set sail ~ Dave Matthews Band

I fall so hard inside the idea of you ~ Dave Matthews Band

What I want is what I've not got, and what I need is all around me."
Dave Matthews ~ Dave Matthews

Would you like to play With the thought of a friend In a distant passing stage While you lie around With your hands up and out So resigned you will fall down. ~ Dave Matthews

I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land. ~ Dave Matthews

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully. ~ Dave Matthews

Well, I've been in a few car wrecks. ~ Dave Matthews

When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don't get boring. ~ Dave Matthews

I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends. ~ Dave Matthews

The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song. ~ Dave Matthews

I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find. ~ Dave Matthews

Don't lose the dreams inside your head
They'll only be there until you're dead
Dream ~ Dave Matthews

Don't burn the day away. ~ Dave Matthews

I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only. ~ Dave Matthews