Top 160 Dave Matthews Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Dave Matthews

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

— Dave Matthews

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

— Dave Matthews

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

— 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 fall so hard inside the idea of you.”

— Dave Matthews

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

— 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 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

123. “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

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

— Dave Matthews

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

— Dave Matthews

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

— Dave Matthews

129. “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

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

— Dave Matthews

131. “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

132. “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

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

— Dave Matthews

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

— Dave Matthews

135. “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

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

— Dave Matthews

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

— Dave Matthews

138. “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

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. “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

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

— Dave Matthews

145. “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

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

— Dave Matthews

147. “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

148. “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

149. “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.”

— Dave Matthews

150. “It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm’s way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.”

— Dave Matthews