Top 100 Quotes About Dave Matthews
#1. When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.
Jason Mraz
#2. A lot like Dave Matthews or John Mayer, I kind of stick with the acoustic genre.
Brandon Jones
#3. 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
#4. I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and '90s music to Dave Matthews.
Spencer Boldman
#5. Dave Matthews is mixing violin solos with saxophone solos and it's bad for the baby
Rob Sheffield
#6. 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
#7. but, like an alcoholic or a fan of the Dave Matthews Band, he ultimately couldn't control his self-destructive addiction.
Nick Offerman
#8. It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
Mackenzie Astin
#9. 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
#10. Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.
Jimmy Buffett
#11. I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band
John Mayer
#12. And now, I still really don't care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones.
Jennifer Garner
#13. I like Daughtry, I like Nickelback, I like Dave Matthews. I like Beyonce - she's a really good entertainer.
Grace Slick
#14. 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.
Dave Matthews
#15. I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
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#16. I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.
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#17. 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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#19. See you and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best, so we can pull on through, whatever tears at us, whatever holds us down, and if nothing can be done, we'll make the best of what's around.
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#20. 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
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#21. 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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#22. So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good ... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh.
Dave Matthews
#23. 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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#24. Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die
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#25. 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
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#26. Do what you will,
always
Walk where you like,
your steps
Do as you please, I'll
back you up.
I remember thinking
sometimes we walk
sometimes we run away
But I know
no matter how fast we are running
Somehow we keep
Somehow we keep up with each other.
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#27. Mercy will we overcome this
Oh one by one could we turn it around
Maybe carry on just a little bit longer
And I try to give you what you need
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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.
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#31. Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.
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#35. 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.
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#37. 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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#38. I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.
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#39. Isn't it strange how we move out lives for another day? Like skipping a beat, what if a great wave should wash us all away?
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#40. 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
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#41. 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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#43. Satellite in my eyes
Like a diamond in the sky
How I wonder
Satellite strung from the moon
And the world your balloon
Peeping Tom for the mother station
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#44. If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him.
Dave Matthews
#45. To change the world, Start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all.
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#46. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.
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#48. 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
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#49. You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you.
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#50. I don't think everything is going to get peachy ever. But I think we have to fight for what we believe in.
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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. So let us sleep outside tonight, Lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely.
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#54. 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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#57. Don't you rob yourself of what you're feeling; don't rob yourself of all that you could be.
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#58. When I don't say a word and you know exactly what I mean ...
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#63. 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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#65. If you hold on tight
to what you think is your thing
you may find you re missing all the rest
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#67. Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out ...
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#68. Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
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#69. 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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#70. 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 ...
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#71. When I step into the light
My arms are open wide
When I step into the light
My eyes searching wildly
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#72. Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky
I wonder if
Someone in the heavens looking back down on me
I'll never know
So much space to believe
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#73. 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.
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#75. 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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#76. Lying under this spell you cast on me Each moment The more I love you.
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#77. A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
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#78. 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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#79. Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.
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#80. I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles I'm coming slow but speeding
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#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.
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#84. I believe in love, but believe it's love that keeps beating me down.
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#85. I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.
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#86. There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.
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#87. How we can stay faithful to the people that have supported us from the beginning is a thought in my mind. I always want to keep that part of it alive.
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#88. I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.
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#89. 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.
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#90. Take what you can from your dreams
Make them real as anything
It takes the work out of the courage
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#91. I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient, and I think I'm quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I'm very bad with money, but I don't see that too much of a flaw.
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#93. 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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#95. I remember thinking I'll go on forever only knowing I'll see you again. And the touch of you is hard to remember, but like that touch, I know no other
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#96. 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.
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#98. 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
#99. 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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