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" A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me. "
Dave Matthews
Me
Angels
Better
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" I never went to college - I barely got out of high school. "
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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. "
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Days
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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. "
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" When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don't get boring. "
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" For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way. But I know those roads. I still have the experience behind me. "
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" I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. "
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Failure
True
" Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' 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. "
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Kindness
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" I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions. "
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Way
Talk
Friends
" I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do. "
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Goodness
Words
Think
" My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them. "
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Like
You
Songs
" I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me. "
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Like
Song
Words
" I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. "
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Myself
Songwriting
Outside
" We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us. "
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Us
Crush
Direction
" The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political. "
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Situation
Race
Racial
" 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. "
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Peace
Active
Always
" The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master. "
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God
World
Down
" Tomorrow is no place to place your better days. "
Dave Matthews
Days
Tomorrow
Place
" In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent. "
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Many
Life
Incompetent
" Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that. "
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Top
Front
Me
" I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally. "
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Economics
Think
People
" I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream. "
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Dream
Music
Up
" 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. "
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Cow
Settle
Way
" 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. "
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Kind
Think
Peace
" Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population. "
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Things
Small
White
" 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. "
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Find
Good
See
" 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. "
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Late
Time
Friends
" 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. "
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People
Culture
Information
" The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song. "
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Kiss
Good
Painting
" I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words. "
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Respect
Bad
Socialism
" Well, I've been in a few car wrecks. "
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Well
Been
Car