'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)

'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 ph…

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

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 …

You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn't get much higher. Come on baby, light my fire - Come o…

Any attempt to codify musical reality into a kind of imitation grammar (I refer mainly to the efforts associated with the Twelve-Tone System) is a brand of fet…

Music has taken a bad turn; these young people have no idea how to write a melody, they just give us shavings, which they dress up to look like a lion's mane a…