Dave Matthews Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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I love so many styles of music.
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.
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In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
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My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
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We are not here to be successful, we are here to be FAITHFUL.
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OK, David. Here we are on the train to Exeter, to the football club of which I am joint chairman, and where we're doing a charity show with Michael Jackson. You and I have both demonstrated some of the hidden powers of the mind and it would be interesting to hear, David, how you explain some of your incredible achievements.
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Not that I'm bragging or anything, because I was shocked, but I literally got hundreds of emails from people during my time on 'Project Runway' asking me out on dates. I had no idea that people would even care.
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The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.
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I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility to the communities that I speak to.
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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.
