Dave Matthews Quotes
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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.
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Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
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The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.
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I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.
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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.
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I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.
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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.
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I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.
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I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.
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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.
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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.
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There's often a lot of stupid ideas like 'you all dress as fruits and pretend you're selling underpants' or 'we'll put you on a bed of nails and drive a truck over the top and photograph you' for the cover.
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I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.
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Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
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When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You wear nothing but you wear it so well.