Top 63 Quotes by Dave Matthews

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

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

The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.

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.

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

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

You wear nothing but you wear it so well.

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

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

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.