Dave Matthews Quotes & Sayings

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 — Dave Matthews

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

Well, I've been in a few car wrecks. — Dave Matthews

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

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

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. — Dave Matthews

I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream. — Dave Matthews

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

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 — Dave Matthews

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

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

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. — Dave Matthews

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 — Dave Matthews

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 — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

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

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on. — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

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

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

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully. — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

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 — Dave Matthews

Love, you drive me to distraction. — Dave Matthews

You wear nothing but you wear it so well. — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

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 — Dave Matthews

I say my hell is the closet I'm stuck inside. — Dave Matthews

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

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

You and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best. — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

What in the world would I sing for if I had it all? — Dave Matthews

You know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her. — Dave Matthews

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

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 — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. — Dave Matthews

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do. — Dave Matthews

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

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

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

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

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

People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals. — Dave Matthews

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 — Dave Matthews

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

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. — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population. — Dave Matthews

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same — Dave Matthews

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

It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle. — Dave Matthews

Life it seems a struggle between what we think and what we see — Dave Matthews

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 ... — Dave Matthews

Keep it locked up inside
Don't talk about it
Talk about the weather
Can't see the light — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

Look, here are we on this starry night staring into space, and I must say I feel as small as dust lying down here. — Dave Matthews

Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head ... — Dave Matthews

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 — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

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

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

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

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. — Dave Matthews

I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words. — Dave Matthews

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

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

To change the world, Start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all. — Dave Matthews

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

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

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

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. — Dave Matthews

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

I'm a very vicious critic of myself. — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

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

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. — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

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? — Dave Matthews

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

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

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

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! — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

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

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

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 — Dave Matthews

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

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

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. — Dave Matthews

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

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

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. — Dave Matthews

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

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

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

Everything good needs replacing — Dave Matthews

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