Dave Matthews Quotes - Page 7

I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.

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.

In many instances, we are much better at fixing our mistakes after we've made them. In some situations, it is easier to sweep things under the rug and forget about them.

People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.

I feel that I have worked my whole life to get to the point where I should have a good understanding of women.

Sometimes it's nice to be able to reflect on the music itself and then write lyrics that I feel anyone can relate to. It's not my dreaming tree that is dead. The feeling of a loss of hope is universal. There are moments that we've all felt a little bit of it, so I don't think it is something that is too hard to identify with.

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.

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

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

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.

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.

I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.

When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other.

I'm not a real gadgety person. In fact, some people think that I'm kind of primitive.

Probably most of the time I watch children's movies because my kids are on the bus, so it requires them.

Would you like to play With the thought of a friend In a distant passing stage While you lie around With your hands up and out So resigned you will fall down.

If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him.

You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you.

I don't understand at best, I cannot speak for all the rest. But you may find a lifetime's passed you by. Every dog has its day, every day has its way Of being forgotten.

Look, Here are we, On this starry night staring into space, And I must say, I feel as small as dust, Lying down here...

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

Move into kiss those sweet sugar lips, baby looks just like love.

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.

We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.

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.