Quotes By Dave Matthews

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

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

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

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.

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

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.

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

You wear nothing but you wear it so well.

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.

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

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

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

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.

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

I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find.

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.

I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.

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.

Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.