Dave Matthews Quotes - Page 7

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• I don't feel like I'm standing in a position where I have some right above other people to say what I think. We should all be talking to each other about what we think is important - whether we're in politics, or whether we're checking out at a grocery store. We shouldn't put walls up between each other.

  Dave Matthews

  Wall, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.

  Dave Matthews

  Dream, Lying, Believe

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• 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

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Dave Matthews makes (and talks) history". Interview with Kareen Wynter and Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2012.

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

  Dave Matthews

  Goes On, Young, Harder

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• 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

  Silence, Feelings, Situation

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

  Dave Matthews

  Music, Artist, Self

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• I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.

  Dave Matthews

  Thinking, Socialism, Bad Word

  "U.S. racism 'everywhere,' says Dave Matthews". Interview with Denise Quan, edition.cnn.com. September 21, 2009.

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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.

  Dave Matthews

  Simple, Way, My Favorite

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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.

  Dave Matthews

  Country, White, Population

  "Dave Matthews On His Band's 'Unique Sort Of Love Affair'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 8, 2012.

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• I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

  Dave Matthews

  School, College, High School

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• Everyday should be a good day to die

  Dave Matthews

  Good Day, Everyday, Should

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• You seek up an emotion and your cup is overflowing,
  you seek up an emotion sometimes your well is dry

  Dave Matthews

  Dry, Cups, Emotion

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• 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

  Lying, Night, Space

  "Song: Pig (Before These Crowded Streets)". April 28, 1998.

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• You know she's going to leave my broken heart behind her...

  Dave Matthews

  Heart, Broken, Behinds

  "Song: Busted Stuff". July 16, 2002.

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• I know I have a very unusual style of playing, where other more recognized and technically proficient players might look at me and wonder what the heck I'm doing. The purpose of my learning to play the way I do was more to accompany my singing. I figured out a style where I'm mentally playing the drums over a simple melody.

  Dave Matthews

  Simple, Player, Style

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• I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments.

  Dave Matthews

  Guitar, Piano, Bass

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• 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

  Simple, Important, Progression

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• Nine planets round the sun, only one does the sun embrace. Upon this watered one, so much we take for granted; So let us sleep outside tonight, lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely ... One sweet world around a star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming, and here we will rest in peace.

  Dave Matthews

  Mother, Sweet, Rest In Peace

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• In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.

  Dave Matthews

  Spaz, Areas, Incompetent

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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.

  Dave Matthews

  Community, Musician, Looks

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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.

  Dave Matthews

  Stupid, Moving, Want

  "U.S. racism 'everywhere,' says Dave Matthews". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 21, 2009.

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• There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.

  Dave Matthews

  War, Long, People

  "U.S. racism 'everywhere,' says Dave Matthews". Interview with Denise Quan, edition.cnn.com. September 21, 2009.

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• 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

  Mother, Looks, Conscious

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• I think making things that aren't necessarily shiny, happy feelings, putting them in that environment is sometimes an easy way to deal with the ugliness. Like, I know that as a kid, that I found - I think I learned this a bit from my mother - that if I could be as warm around strangers, no matter how strange or what different environment I was in, that people tended to be warm back.

  Dave Matthews

  Mother, Kids, Thinking

  "Dave Matthews: An Unlikely Rock Star At The Crossroads". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 13, 2010.

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• I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways. At this point, I'm incredibly grateful for the relationship that it's given me with the men that I play music with. It's a great journey, and I'm really grateful for that. And also, being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic.

  Dave Matthews

  Grateful, Journey, Men

  Source: www.wbur.org

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