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Dave Matthews Inspirational Quotes (101)

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Would you like to play With the thought of a friend In a distant passing stage While you lie around With your hands up and out So resigned you will fall down.
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I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.
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In many instances, we are much better at fixing our mistakes after we've made them. In some situations, it is easier to sweep things under the rug and forget about them.
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I always like to have an atlas just so that I can find things out. It's always good to have an almanac those sort of things.
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I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles I'm coming slow but speeding
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When I don't say a word and you know exactly what I mean.
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In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.
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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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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.
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Don't burn the day away...
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Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky I wonder if Someone in the heavens looking back down on me I'll never know So much space to believe
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You seek up an emotion and your cup is overflowing, you seek up an emotion sometimes your well is dry
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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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I'm a very vicious critic of myself.
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To change the world It starts with one step However small First step is hardest of all.
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When I step into the light My arms are open wide When I step into the light My eyes searching wildly
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How we can stay faithful to the people that have supported us from the beginning is a thought in my mind. I always want to keep that part of it alive.
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Digging a ditch where madness gives a bit Digging a ditch where silence lives Digging a ditch for when I'm old Digging this ditch my story's told Where all these troubles weigh down on me will rise ..... Where all these questions spinning round my head will die
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Sometimes it's nice to be able to reflect on the music itself and then write lyrics that I feel anyone can relate to. It's not my dreaming tree that is dead. The feeling of a loss of hope is universal. There are moments that we've all felt a little bit of it, so I don't think it is something that is too hard to identify with.
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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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I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.
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How could I have been anyone other than me?
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We have to do much more than believe if we really want to change things.
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I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.
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