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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. "

Dave Matthews

Mother

Always

Family

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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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Existence

Pretty

" I never went to college - I barely got out of high school. "

" I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means. "

" 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. "

" I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population. "

" Well, I've been in a few car wrecks. "

" You wear nothing but you wear it so well. "

" 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. "

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

Dave Matthews

You

Songs

" 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. "

" I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master. "

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Master

World

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Dave Matthews

Top

Front

" 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. "

" I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully. "

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

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Dream

Music