Dave Matthews Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.”

“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.”

“We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.”

“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.”