Dave matthews quotes

Always walk where you like your steps.

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

I am who I am who I am who am I Requesting some enlightenment Could I have been anyone other than me?

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.

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.

Look, Here are we On this starry night staring into space. And I must say I feel as small as dust Lying down here. What point could there be troubling? Head down wondering what will Become of me, Why concern we cannot see But no reason to abandon it. Time is short but that's all right, Maybe I'll go in the middle of the night. Take your hands from your eyes, my love, Everything must end some time, Don't burn the day away.

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.

Six senses keeping Five around a sense of self

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.

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

Troubles, they may come and go, but good times, they're the gold.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

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

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

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

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?

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.

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

When I don't say a word and you know exactly what I mean.

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

How could I have been anyone other than me?

A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other... maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.

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

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same.

We have to do much more than believe if we really want to change things.

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

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

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.

Move into kiss those sweet sugar lips, baby looks just like love.

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

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

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

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.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways. At this point, I'm incredibly grateful for the relationship that it's given me with the men that I play music with. It's a great journey, and I'm really grateful for that. And also, being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic.

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.

Life it seems a struggle between what we think and what we see

Come and relax now, put your troubles down. No need to bear the weight of your worries, just let them all fall away.

To change the world It starts with one step However small First step is hardest of all.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

You know she's going to leave my broken heart behind her...

Take what you can from your dreams, Make them as real as anything...

In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.

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

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

Because life is short but sweet for certain

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

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.

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

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

So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die.

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.

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.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

I believe in love, but believe it's love that keeps beating me down.

Don’t you rob yourself of what you’re feeling; don’t rob yourself of all that you could be.

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.

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.

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 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.

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?

If you live life, then you become what are.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.

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.

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

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

The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.

The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.

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

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.

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.

If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing you may find you re missing all the rest

Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.

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?

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.

My voice is soft, but oh, my heart roars!

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.

But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world, and there's incredible acts of kindness and bravery and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

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

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

I'm not going to change my ways just to please you, or appease you.

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

I think making things that aren't necessarily shiny, happy feelings, putting them in that environment is sometimes an easy way to deal with the ugliness. Like, I know that as a kid, that I found - I think I learned this a bit from my mother - that if I could be as warm around strangers, no matter how strange or what different environment I was in, that people tended to be warm back.

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.

Love, you drive me to distraction.

What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me.

I don't think everything is going to get peachy ever. But I think we have to fight for what we believe in.

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

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!

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

A lot of the time, I write a lot of angry stuff, but then I don't want to be a finger-pointer - I'd rather be a cheerleader than a judge. I don't want to preach as if I'm in some position of righteousness, but I do want to speak my mind and scream at the clouds and shout out of the pit of hopelessness that I sometimes think the human race is in.

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

Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters.

Goodnight moon. Sweet dreams. Smile kindly upon this little blue gum ball of us while we sleep.

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.

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

Probably most of the time I watch children's movies because my kids are on the bus, so it requires them.

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

Don't burn the day away...

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

I hate to admit it, but we're badass.

The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm only this far, and only tomorrow leads my way.

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.

I'm not a real gadgety person. In fact, some people think that I'm kind of primitive.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.

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.

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.

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.

When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.

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.