Top 100 Dave Matthews Quotes
#1. Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.
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#2. 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.
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#4. I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow. Can you milk a bison?
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#5. 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.
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#6. Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die
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#7. 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
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#8. Look, here are we on this starry night staring into space, and I must say I feel as small as dust lying down here.
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#9. In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.
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#11. I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.
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#12. I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.
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#13. Excuse me please, one more drink
Could you make it strong cause I don't need to think
She broke my heart, my grace is gone
One more drink and I'll move on.
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#14. To change the world, Start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all.
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#15. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.
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#16. I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on around us and take stock of our part in it.
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#17. She thinks, "Hey,
How did I come to this?
I dream myself a thousand times around the world,
But I can't get out of this place"
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#18. Probably most of the time I watch children's movies because my kids are on the bus, so it requires them.
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#20. When I don't say a word and you know exactly what I mean ...
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#21. We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.
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#22. 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!
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#25. 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.
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#27. She runs up into the light surprised
Her arms are opened
Her mind's eye is
Seeing things from a better side than most can dream
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#28. 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.
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#29. Lying under this spell you cast on me Each moment The more I love you.
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#30. A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
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#31. It's funny, I get a little quieter with time. I don't want to chase my tail and one day repeat myself and repeat myself and one day have kids going to college and not have memories that I should, because I was too busy doing my thing.
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#32. I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles I'm coming slow but speeding
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#33. I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.
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#34. 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
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#35. I believe in love, but believe it's love that keeps beating me down.
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#36. I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.
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#37. I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.
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#38. I think I am a very kind person. I think I'm joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence.
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#41. The problem is someone will try to convince you
That they know the answer no matter the question
Be wary of those who believe in a neat little world
'Cause it's just ... crazy - you know that it is
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#42. I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic.
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#43. I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.
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#44. I see you young and soft oh little baby
Little feet, little hands, little baby
One year of crying and the words creep up inside
Creep into your mind
So much to say
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#45. I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.
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#46. Every day things change, but basically they stay the same
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#47. 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.
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#48. Goodnight moon. Sweet dreams. Smile kindly upon this little blue gum ball of us while we sleep.
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#49. 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
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#50. So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.
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#51. One sweet world Around this star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming And here we will rest in peace
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#53. I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.
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#54. 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.
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#55. People in every direction
No words exchanged
No time to exchange
And all the little ants are marching
Red and black antennas waving
They all do it the same
We all do it the same way
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#56. Leave the big door open, everyone'll come around ...
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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.
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#59. What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me
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#60. Is this not enough?
This blessed sip of life
Is it not enough?
Staring down at the ground
Then complain and pray for more from above
Greedy little pig
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#61. I'm not a real gadgety person. But bottle opener is probably the gadget I can't live without. Actually, I can open a bottle of beer pretty easily without it, but wine is always too much of a pain in the (rear) to open that up. So a corkscrew is probably the gadget that I can't live without.
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#62. Don't lose the dreams inside your head
They'll only be there until you're dead
Dream
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#63. I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.
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#64. I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.
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#65. Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.
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#67. 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
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#68. Why won't you run in the rain and play, let the tears splash all over you?
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#69. I was just wondering if you'd come along to hold up my head when my head won't hold on.
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#70. 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.
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#71. People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.
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#72. A dream is a massive magic trick of the mind. No amount of science could explain away the mysterious wonder.
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#73. 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.
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#74. 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.
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#75. Don't convince yourself you're over, don't convince yourself you're done, just because the things around you seem heavy, doesn't mean you can't get off this ground.
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#76. 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
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#77. You know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her.
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#78. My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them.
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#79. Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head ...
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#80. Just knowing that the world is round
Here I'm dancing on the ground
Am I right side up or upside down?
Is this real or am I dreaming?
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#81. I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.
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#82. When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician ... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.
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#83. I feel that I have worked my whole life to get to the point where I should have a good understanding of women.
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#84. I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.
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#85. It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.
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#86. 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
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#87. The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.
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#88. I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments.
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#89. You crush me with the things you do, I do for anything too ... each moment the more I love you.
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#91. We have to do much more than believe if we really want to change things.
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#92. 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
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#93. Remember that there are hundreds of thousands of things you can eat that are not cheese.
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#94. 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.
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#95. 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.
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#96. Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we cannot change
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#97. I like to think I'm a night person, because that's my job, but now I'm a father of three. I'm trying to become more of a morning person. I don't know if it will last. I have two choices, right? Either I'm bitter about getting up early, or I start drinking wine earlier and get to bed.
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#98. 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.
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#99. You seek up an emotion and your cup is overflowing,
you seek up an emotion sometimes your well is dry
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#100. Come and relax now, put your troubles down. No need to bear the weight of your worries, just let them all fall away.
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