15 Quotes By Dave Matthews


It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.
Dave Matthews on amazing

Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.
Dave Matthews on car

Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.
Dave Matthews on dreams

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
Dave Matthews on failure

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
Dave Matthews on fear

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

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
Dave Matthews on good

But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.
Dave Matthews on hope

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.
Dave Matthews on hope

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
Dave Matthews on music

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.
Dave Matthews on peace

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.
Dave Matthews on relationship

I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.
Dave Matthews on respect

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.
Dave Matthews on respect

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.
Dave Matthews on success