Best Dave Matthews Quotes & Sayings

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

If hate's the gate to peace
This is the last stop — Dave Matthews Band

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. — Dave Matthews

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

The space between the tears we cry is the laughter that keeps us coming back for more ... — Dave Matthews Band

You seek up an emotion and your cup is overflowing,
you seek up an emotion sometimes your well is dry — Dave Matthews

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

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

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 — Dave Matthews Band

Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die — Dave Matthews

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 — Dave Matthews

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

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

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. — Dave Matthews Band

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

The brightest star on a cloudless night
Some kind of miracle, almost empty sky ...
Just as the bite of the blade wakes the absent mind
There's time to dream and there's time to open your eyes — Dave Matthews

If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him. — Dave Matthews

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

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. — 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

Six senses keeping
Five around a sense of self — 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

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

When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other. — Dave Matthews

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

We gotta do much more than believe if wanna see the world change
We gotta do much more than believe if we really wanna change things
We gotta do much more than believe, go on try it, go on try it
We gotta do much more than believe if we wanna see the world change — Dave Matthews Band

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

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" — 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

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. — Dave Matthews Band

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

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'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation. — Dave Matthews