Quotes by Dave Matthews

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

“San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicagos got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it,”

“I cant believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I cant believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.”

“How could I have been anyone other than me?”

“Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time (they spend studying the band) on politics,”

“Ill lean on you and you lean on me and well be okay.”

“Celebrate we will because life is short but sweet for certain were climbing two by two to be sure these days continue.”

Nothing is black or white, nothings us or them. But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. Theres incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

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.

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

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

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

I think Im probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think Im very resilient, and I think Im quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And Im very bad with money, but I dont see that too much of a flaw.

Theres a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.