Dave Matthews Quotes

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  There’s evil people, but they still came weeping out of somebody’s vagina.

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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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  Tags in Time, Girl, Friends, Relationships

• Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.

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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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• Well, I’ve been in a few car wrecks.

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• We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I’ve always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

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  Tags in Peace, Great

• 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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• The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there’s not a puppet master.

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  Tags in Wonderful, Universe, Far

• 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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  Topics in Respect, Success

  Tags in Pretty

• 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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  Tags in Time, Myself, Back

• 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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  Tags in Live, Mean, Talk

• 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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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Music, Amazing

• 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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  Tags in Good, Find, Away

• I’m partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

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• I’m a very vicious critic of myself.

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

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  Tags in Myself, Artist, Less

• 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.

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  Topics in Money, Stupid

  Tags in Whole

• 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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  Topics in God

  Tags in Means, Songs

• I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That’s the only way we’ll find solutions.

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  Tags in Find, Friends, Talk

• 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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Dave Matthews (41)

Birth:	9th January, 1967
Nationality:	American, South African
Profession:	Actor, Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer

About

David John "Dave" Matthews was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. He is a South-African-born American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor. From 1991 to 2003, Matthews predominantly focused on songwriting and performing with the Dave Matthews Band, which he started in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991. During the period from 2000 to 2010, his band sold more tickets and earned more money than any other act in North America. The band's most recent album, Away from the World, released in 2012, made them the only group to have six consecutive studio albums debut at number one on the Billboard charts. He has also won 2 Grammy Awards: one in 1997 for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group – "So Much to Say" and one in 2004 for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance – "Gravedigger". In 2007, Matthews guest starred in the Fox drama series House in the episode "Half-Wit". In 2008, he appeared in another Adam Sandler movie, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, as a racist redneck character named James.

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