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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.

Dave Matthews

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Dave Matthews
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 9
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
David John Matthews
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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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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.
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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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What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me.
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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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Troubles, they may come and go, but good times, they're the gold.
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The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.
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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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She feels like kicking out all the windows And setting fire to this life She could change everything about her using colors bold and bright But all the colors mix together - to grey
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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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