Top 160 Dave Matthews Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “When I don’t say a word and you know exactly what I mean...”

— Dave Matthews

103. “I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.”

— Dave Matthews

104. “I’m partly obsessed by aging gracefully.”

— Dave Matthews

105. “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

106. “Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die.”

— Dave Matthews

107. “Six senses keeping Five around a sense of self.”

— Dave Matthews

108. “The space between the tears we cry is the laughter that keeps us coming back for more...”

— Dave Matthews

109. “There’s a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.”

— Dave Matthews

110. “I have no time to justify you, fool, youre blind, step aside from me.”

— Dave Matthews

111. “What in the world would I sing for if I had it all?”

— Dave Matthews

112. “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?”

— Dave Matthews

113. “I believe in love, but believe it’s love that keeps beating me down.”

— Dave Matthews

114. “I fall so hard inside the idea of you.”

— Dave Matthews

115. “I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.”

— Dave Matthews

116. “Gravedigger, when you dig my grave, could you make it shallow so that I can feel the rain.”

— Dave Matthews

117. “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

118. “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

119. “My songs are like a three-legged dog – you have to get to know them to have any love for them.”

— Dave Matthews

120. “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

121. “A dream is a massive magic trick of the mind. No amount of science could explain away the mysterious wonder.”

— Dave Matthews

122. “I don’t believe in trickle-down economics. I don’t think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.”

— Dave Matthews

123. “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

124. “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.”

— Dave Matthews

125. “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.”

— Dave Matthews

126. “I use God in my songs a lot but I don’t have a relationship. I don’t know what that means.”

— Dave Matthews

127. “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.”

— Dave Matthews

128. “I feel that I have worked my whole life to get to the point where I should have a good understanding of women.”

— Dave Matthews

129. “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

130. “I don’t think socialism, and I don’t think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.”

— Dave Matthews

131. “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

132. “Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.”

— Dave Matthews

133. “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

134. “I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.”

— Dave Matthews

135. “If you live life, then you become what are.”

— Dave Matthews

136. “I don’t want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.”

— Dave Matthews

137. “People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.”

— Dave Matthews

138. “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.”

— Dave Matthews

139. “In so many areas of life, I’m a spaz and incompetent.”

— Dave Matthews

140. “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

141. “I’ve always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn’t mean anything professionally.”

— Dave Matthews

142. “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

143. “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

144. “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

145. “I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.”

— Dave Matthews

146. “Because one of the properties of music is to entertain and to, I don’t mean this lightly, distract us from the things that pull us down. Music should be not only a source for political ideas but also a source of hope.”

— Dave Matthews

147. “I don’t touch electric guitars. It’s just not my thing – I stick with acoustic guitars only.”

— Dave Matthews

148. “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.”

— Dave Matthews

149. “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

150. “I never went to college – I barely got out of high school.”

— Dave Matthews