Dave Matthews Quotes - Page 6

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

  Dave Matthews

  Crush, Leader, Looks

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• 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.

  Dave Matthews

  Believe, Thinking, Grace

  "Q&A with Dave Matthews ahead of his 'concert and conversation' with the Dalai Lama". Interview with Marian Liu, www.seattletimes.com. April 11, 2008.

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

  Dave Matthews

  Baby, Sweet, Moving

  "Song: 'Busted Stuff'". 2002.

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

  Dave Matthews

  Lying, Night, Space

  "Song: Pig (Before These Crowded Streets)". April 28, 1998.

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

  Dave Matthews

  Heart, Broken, Behinds

  "Song: Busted Stuff". July 16, 2002.

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• 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.

  Dave Matthews

  Silence, Feelings, Situation

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• I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

  Dave Matthews

  Aging, Obsessed, Aging Gracefully

  "Dave Matthews talks getting old and reuniting with Lillywhite on 'Away From the World'". Interview, api.hitfix.com. September 11, 2012.

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• 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.

  Dave Matthews

  New York, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle.

  Dave Matthews

  Country, Race, Talking

  Source: www.cnn.com

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

  Dave Matthews

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Dave Matthews makes (and talks) history". Interview with Kareen Wynter and Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2012.

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

  Dave Matthews

  Goes On, Young, Harder

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• 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

  Dream, Lying, Believe

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

  Dave Matthews

  Thinking, Socialism, Bad Word

  "U.S. racism 'everywhere,' says Dave Matthews". Interview with Denise Quan, edition.cnn.com. September 21, 2009.

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• When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

  Dave Matthews

  Simple, Way, My Favorite

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• I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments.

  Dave Matthews

  Guitar, Piano, Bass

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

  Dave Matthews

  Thinking, Rushing, Goal

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• 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.

  Dave Matthews

  Mistake, Fixing, Forget

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

  Dave Matthews

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

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

  Dave Matthews

  Dream, Giving Up, Foolish

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• 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.

  Dave Matthews

  Wall, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Lying under this spell you cast on me Each moment The more I love you.

  Dave Matthews

  Lying, Love You, Moments

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• 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.

  Dave Matthews

  Mean, Saving, Way

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• San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.

  Dave Matthews

  Flower, Hair, Cities

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• Why won't you run in the rain and play, let the tears splash all over you?

  Dave Matthews

  Running, Rain, Sadness

  Song: #41

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• I walk into this room
  All eyes on me now
  But I do not know the people inside
  Look straight through me these eyes
  Seeking more wisdom
  Than I have to give away

  Dave Matthews

  Eye, People, Giving

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