Quotes by Dave Matthews

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
– Dave Matthews
How could I have been anyone other than me?
– Dave Matthews
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.
– Dave Matthews
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
I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.
– Dave Matthews
It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.
– Dave Matthews
Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.
– Dave Matthews
Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.
– Dave Matthews
We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!
– Dave Matthews
You wear nothing but you wear it so well.
– Dave Matthews
Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.
– Dave Matthews
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
There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.
– Dave Matthews
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
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
I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.
– Dave Matthews
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
I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.
– Dave Matthews
Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
– Dave Matthews
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