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" 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. "
Dave Matthews
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" 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. "
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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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" I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words. "
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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. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles. "
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" How could I have been anyone other than me? "
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" I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere. "
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" I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally. "
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" I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means. "
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" 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! "
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" 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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" I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream. "
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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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" I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways. "
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" The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be. "
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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. "
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" 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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" You wear nothing but you wear it so well. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient, and I think I'm quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I'm very bad with money, but I don't see that too much of a flaw. "
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" 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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" I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay. "
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" 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. "
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" A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me. "
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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. "
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