62 Dave Matthews Quotes

Dave Matthews quotes

1. 'Lying under this spell you cast on me/ Each moment/ The more I love you'

2. 'Crazy how it feels tonight/ Crazy how you make it all alright love/ You crush me with the things you do/ And I do for you anything too'

3. 'The road to you is long, and I've been on it for a while'

4. 'The future is no place to place your better days'

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

6. 'I'm not going to change my ways just to please you, or appease you'

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

8. 'Every day things change, but basically they stay the same'

9. 'Lights down, you up and die.'

10. 'She prays to God most every night And though she swears he doesn't listen theres a little hope in her he might.'

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

12. 'Don't burn the day away'

13. 'Look, here are we on this starry night staring into space, and I must say I feel as small as dust lying down here'

14. 'I will go in this way Oh and I'll find my own way out'

15. 'Don't you know when you give life, then you become what you are?'

16. 'Celebrate we will, because life is short but sweet for certain'

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17. 'Hey my love do you believe that we might last a thousand years or more if not for this?'

18. 'Come and relax now, put your troubles down. No need to bear the weight of your worries, just let them all fall away'

19. 'I was just wondering if you'd come along,hold up my head when my head won't hold on. I'll do the same if the same is what you want. But if not I'll go... I'll go alone'

20. 'I need so.. to be in your arms, see your smile, hold you close'

21. 'And I cant believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been'

22. 'It all comes down to nothing...'

23. 'Leave the big door open, everyone'll come around...'

24. 'See you and me, have a better time than most can dream. Have it better than the best, so can pull on through. Whatever tears at us... whatever holds us down, and if nothing can be done, well make the best of whats around'

25. 'Turns out not where, but who you're with, that really matters.'

26. 'I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.'

27. 'Without hatred where's the light? Without darkness where's the love?'

28. 'What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me'

29. 'So let us sleep outside tonight, Lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely'

30. 'God, it seems has left me now. But it's okay, 'cause maybe I'll make up my own God, and have a little tea party of mine own'- 'Drive In Drive Out', July 10th, 2005. Mansfield, Massachusetts

31. 'The world is in an awfully fucked up place right now, and it's just good to see so many people in the same place having a good time.' - Dave *DMB LIVE 6/3/06 Noblesville, Indiana

32. 'I think I'm gonna take a seat for this one. Sometimes you just gotta take a fucking load off.' June, 2005. Hartford, Connecticut.

33. 'Sleep tight this evening. Snuggle if you can. No means no:and yes means come the fuck on.' September 1, 2006 The Gorge Amphitheatre

34. So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh.

35. 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?'

36. 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.

37. 'Being a physicist, my father was a great believer in progress, but he also loved nature. He was a photographer, and outside of taking the occasional family photographs, all he did was photograph nature. He loved birds. That meant a lot to me growing up. Healthy progress also means we have to be concerned for the environment. That may have something to do with what I believe about farming.'

38. 'That's the magic of this band: shooting from the hip. The lights have to follow our cues, because we're not going to follow their cues. We're not going to stick to a song the way it's supposed to be. Everything is up to us. That's music to me. That's American music. We're an American band.' -- Dave Matthews, Rolling Stone interview 'The Boys of Summer' (June 16, 2005). Eliscu, Jenny (2005). 'The Boys of Summer' Rolling Stone (accessed June 19. 2006)

39. 'I'm way more American than George Bush and Dick Cheney.' -- Dave Matthews, Rolling Stone interview 'The Devil and Dave Matthews' (January 22, 2004)

40. 'I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be OK.'

41. 'Remember that there are hundreds of thousands of things you can eat that are not cheese.'

42. 'Elephants are eating my face.'- Dave Matthews 12.16.06, Warren Haynes' 18th Anual Xmas Jam

1. 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.

2. Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. I don't think everything is going to get peachy ever. But I think we have to fight for what we believe in.

6. So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die.

7. To change the world, Start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all.

8. I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

9. It's funny, I get a little quieter with time. I don't want to chase my tail and one day repeat myself and repeat myself and one day have kids going to college and not have memories that I should, because I was too busy doing my thing.

10. I'm only this far, and only tomorrow leads my way.

11. I hate to admit it, but we're badass.

12. My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them.

13. And when you wake, you will fly away, holding tight to the legs of all your angels. Goodbye, my love, into your blue, blue eyes.

14. 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.

15. I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.

16. When I don't say a word and you know exactly what I mean...

17. I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me.

18. The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.

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

20. We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.