110+ Dave Matthews Quotes On Friends, Family And Friendship

Dave Matthews was a South African singer-songwriter and guitarist who rose to fame in the United States in the 1990s. He was the lead vocalist and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band, an American rock band that blended elements of jazz, folk, and world music. He is known for his unique blend of acoustic guitar, improvisation, and passionate lyrics. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Dave Matthews on life, love, friends.

Top 10 Dave Matthews Quotes

1. Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.
2. I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.
3. If I go Before I'm old Oh, brother of mine Please don't forget me if I go Bartender, please Fill my glass for me With the wine you gave Jesus that set him free After three days in the ground.
4. Because life is short but sweet for certain
5. 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.
6. Goodnight moon. Sweet dreams. Smile kindly upon this little blue gum ball of us while we sleep.
7. A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
8. 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.
9. The brightest star on a cloudless night Some kind of miracle, almost empty sky... Just as the bite of the blade wakes the absent mind There's time to dream and there's time to open your eyes
10. Sitting still as stone watching - watching People walking by you wondering why No one ever stops to talk or thinks about it - if they ever did

Dave Matthews Short Quotes

• How could I have been anyone other than me?
• Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.
• Why won't you run in the rain and play, let the tears splash all over you?
• I'm not going to change my ways just to please you, or appease you.
• Troubles, they may come and go, but good times, they're the gold.
• Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.
• If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him.
• You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you.
• I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.
• Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head.

Dave Matthews Quotes About Life

In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent. — Dave Matthews

I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends. — Dave Matthews

If you live life, then you become what are. — Dave Matthews

Don't convince yourself you're over, don't convince yourself you're done, just because the things around you seem heavy, doesn't mean you can't get off this ground. — Dave Matthews

If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing you may find you re missing all the rest — Dave Matthews

I'm only this far, and only tomorrow leads my way. — Dave Matthews

Life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set Spot in the middle Static fade, statistic bit And soon I fade away, fade away — Dave Matthews

Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we cannot change — Dave Matthews

Life it seems a struggle between what we think and what we see — Dave Matthews

You crush me with the things you do, I do for anything too...each moment the more I love you. — Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews Quotes About Love

I believe in love, but believe it's love that keeps beating me down. — Dave Matthews

Move into kiss those sweet sugar lips, baby looks just like love. — Dave Matthews

Lying under this spell you cast on me Each moment The more I love you. — Dave Matthews

And when you wake, you will fly away, holding tight to the legs of all your angels. Goodbye, my love, into your blue, blue eyes. — Dave Matthews

Love, you drive me to distraction. — Dave Matthews

For a moment this good time would never end You and me Just wasting time I was kissing you You were kissing me love From good day into a moonlight — Dave Matthews

My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them. — Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews Quotes About Friends

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

Would you like to play With the thought of a friend In a distant passing stage While you lie around With your hands up and out So resigned you will fall down. — Dave Matthews

So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die. — Dave Matthews

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago. — Dave Matthews

If you've got a question just get in line 'Cause my intentions are to make you mine I'll take care of everything All you need, friend, is right here ..... And if you're lost I will find your way Give me your soul, friend, it's okay — Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews Quotes About Friendship

You and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best. — Dave Matthews

I was just wondering if you'd come along to hold up my head when my head won't hold on. — Dave Matthews

Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters. — Dave Matthews

In your eyes, I see what's on my mind. — Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews Quotes About Place

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

Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die — Dave Matthews

She thinks, "Hey, How did I come to this? I dream myself a thousand times around the world, But I can't get out of this place" — Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews Famous Quotes And Sayings

One sweet world Around this star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming And here we will rest in peace — Dave Matthews

A dream is a massive magic trick of the mind. No amount of science could explain away the mysterious wonder. — 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

Just knowing that the world is round Here I'm dancing on the ground Am I right side up or upside down? Is this real or am I dreaming? — Dave Matthews

Yorke's lyrics make me want to give up. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song - let alone album after album. — Dave Matthews

I think we have to be active in teaching our children, and teaching each other. 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. We have a military, but what if there was a department devoted entirely and truthfully to finding peaceful resolutions? — Dave Matthews

Excuse me please, one more drink Could you make it strong cause I don't need to think She broke my heart, my grace is gone One more drink and I'll move on. — Dave Matthews

So the story goes, so I'm told The people he knew were Less than golden hearted Gamblers and robbers Drinkers and jokers, all soul searchers Like you and 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

We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate. — Dave Matthews

A vote for change is a vote for a stronger, safer, healthier America. A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America. It is our duty to this beautiful land to let our voices be heard. That's the reason for the tour. That's why I'm doing it. — 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

The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black. — Dave Matthews

I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world. — Dave Matthews

I grew up in a very politically aware family. My mother always taught me to question everything, never believing anything simply at face value - especially the nicest, most adamant politicians. — Dave Matthews

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

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song. — Dave Matthews

Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky I wonder if Someone in the heavens looking back down on me I'll never know So much space to believe — Dave Matthews

Are you looking for answers, to questions under the stars? If along the way you are growing weary, You can rest with me until a brighter day It's okay — Dave Matthews

So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh. — Dave Matthews

I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land. — Dave Matthews

I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've started to try and write more traditionally, but for whatever reason, I tend toward trying to find something that sounds more like a pattern to me. — Dave Matthews

Everyday should be a good day to die — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

Isn't it strange how we move out lives for another day? Like skipping a beat, what if a great wave should wash us all away? — Dave Matthews

She runs up into the light surprised Her arms are opened Her mind's eye is Seeing things from a better side than most can dream — Dave Matthews

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

She feels like kicking out all the windows And setting fire to this life She could change everything about her using colors bold and bright But all the colors mix together - to grey — Dave Matthews

You wear nothing but you wear it so well. — Dave Matthews

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

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same. — Dave Matthews

Come and relax now, put your troubles down. No need to bear the weight of your worries, just let them all fall away. — Dave Matthews

First time I kissed you, I lost my legs. — Dave Matthews

Digging a ditch where madness gives a bit Digging a ditch where silence lives Digging a ditch for when I'm old Digging this ditch my story's told Where all these troubles weigh down on me will rise ..... Where all these questions spinning round my head will die — Dave Matthews

The melodies are always the most important part to me. I am pulled more to the groove than the chord progression. After you find the groove, you find the most simple chord progressions and then sit inside that groove. — Dave Matthews

I don't understand at best, I cannot speak for all the rest. But you may find a lifetime's passed you by. Every dog has its day, every day has its way Of being forgotten. — Dave Matthews

Sometimes it's nice to be able to reflect on the music itself and then write lyrics that I feel anyone can relate to. It's not my dreaming tree that is dead. The feeling of a loss of hope is universal. There are moments that we've all felt a little bit of it, so I don't think it is something that is too hard to identify with. — Dave Matthews

My reaction to Radiohead isn't as simple as jealousy. Jealousy just burns; Radiohead infuriate me. But if it were only that, I wouldn't go back and listen to those records again and again. Listening to Radiohead makes me fell like I'm a Salieri to their Mozart. Yorke's lyrics make me want to give up. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song - let alone album after album. — Dave Matthews

Out of the darkness comes light like a flash You think you can, you think you can Sometimes that is the problem Dream little darling dream — Dave Matthews

I say my hell is the closet I'm stuck inside. — 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

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. — Dave Matthews

I think making things that aren't necessarily shiny, happy feelings, putting them in that environment is sometimes an easy way to deal with the ugliness. Like, I know that as a kid, that I found - I think I learned this a bit from my mother - that if I could be as warm around strangers, no matter how strange or what different environment I was in, that people tended to be warm back. — Dave Matthews

The problem is someone will try to convince you That they know the answer no matter the question Be wary of those who believe in a neat little world 'Cause it's just ..... crazy - you know that it is — 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

People in every direction No words exchanged No time to exchange And all the little ants are marching Red and black antennas waving They all do it the same We all do it the same way — Dave Matthews

Some might tell you there's no hope in hand Just because they feel hopeless But you don't have to be a thing like that You be a ship in a bottle set sail — Dave Matthews

There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together. — Dave Matthews

Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band. — Dave Matthews

Don’t you rob yourself of what you’re feeling; don’t rob yourself of all that you could be. — Dave Matthews

To change the world It starts with one step However small First step is hardest of all. — Dave Matthews

Look, Here are we On this starry night staring into space. And I must say I feel as small as dust Lying down here. What point could there be troubling? Head down wondering what will Become of me, Why concern we cannot see But no reason to abandon it. Time is short but that's all right, Maybe I'll go in the middle of the night. Take your hands from your eyes, my love, Everything must end some time, Don't burn the day away. — Dave Matthews

When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way. — Dave Matthews

You know she's going to leave my broken heart behind her... — Dave Matthews

Leave the big door open, everyone'll come around. — Dave Matthews

Always walk where you like your steps. — Dave Matthews

I hate to admit it, but we're badass. — Dave Matthews

Is this not enough? This blessed sip of life Is it not enough? Staring down at the ground Then complain and pray for more from above Greedy little pig — Dave Matthews

I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles I'm coming slow but speeding — Dave Matthews

Nothing is here to stay Everything has to begin and end A ship in a bottle won't sail All we can do is dream that the wind will blow us across the water A ship in a bottle set sail — Dave Matthews

How we can stay faithful to the people that have supported us from the beginning is a thought in my mind. I always want to keep that part of it alive. — Dave Matthews

Nine planets round the sun, only one does the sun embrace. Upon this watered one, so much we take for granted; So let us sleep outside tonight, lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely ... One sweet world around a star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming, and here we will rest in peace. — Dave Matthews

Six senses keeping Five around a sense of self — Dave Matthews

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

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

I always like to have an atlas just so that I can find things out. It's always good to have an almanac; those sort of things. — Dave Matthews

I'm a very vicious critic of myself. — Dave Matthews

You seek up an emotion and your cup is overflowing, you seek up an emotion sometimes your well is dry — Dave Matthews

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

I'm not a real gadgety person. In fact, some people think that I'm kind of primitive. — Dave Matthews

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

I like to think I'm a night person, because that's my job, but now I'm a father of three. I'm trying to become more of a morning person. I don't know if it will last. I have two choices, right? Either I'm bitter about getting up early, or I start drinking wine earlier and get to bed. — Dave Matthews

When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right. — Dave Matthews

Don't lose the dreams inside your head They'll only be there until you're dead Dream — Dave Matthews

Remember that there are hundreds of thousands of things you can eat that are not cheese. — Dave Matthews

I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on around us and take stock of our part in it. — Dave Matthews

Life Lessons by Dave Matthews

1. Dave Matthews has taught us to never give up on our dreams and to always stay true to ourselves, no matter what obstacles we face.
2. He has also shown us the importance of staying humble and never taking success for granted.
3. Finally, he has demonstrated the power of music to bring people together and to promote positive change in the world.