Dave Matthews Band Quotes
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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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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 don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.
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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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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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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'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.
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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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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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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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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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Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
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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.
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You wear nothing but you wear it so well.
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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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A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
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Oh! We already, we done already done it, done it, dammit! I could you know, like, sing a thing, and then not sing it for a little while, and then sing it again... and people would be like, 'Why'd he sing that again?'
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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 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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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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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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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.
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I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
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I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.