Dave Matthews Thinking Quotations

I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient, and I think I'm quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I'm very bad with money, but I don't see that too much of a flaw.

I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic.

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.

A lot of the time, I write a lot of angry stuff, but then I don't want to be a finger-pointer - I'd rather be a cheerleader than a judge. I don't want to preach as if I'm in some position of righteousness, but I do want to speak my mind and scream at the clouds and shout out of the pit of hopelessness that I sometimes think the human race is in.

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 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 don't think everything is going to get peachy ever. But I think we have to fight for what we believe in.

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

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

Oh look at how she listens She says nothing of what she thinks She just goes stumbling through her memories Staring out on to Grey Street

Out of the darkness comes light like a flash You think you can, you think you can Sometimes that is the problem Dream little darling dream

If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing you may find you re missing all the rest

She thinks, "Hey, How did I come to this? I dream myself a thousand times around the world, But I can't get out of this place"

I'm not a real gadgety person. In fact, some people think that I'm kind of primitive.

Life it seems a struggle between what we think and what we see

I don't feel like I'm standing in a position where I have some right above other people to say what I think. We should all be talking to each other about what we think is important - whether we're in politics, or whether we're checking out at a grocery store. We shouldn't put walls up between each other.

I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've started to try and write more traditionally, but for whatever reason, I tend toward trying to find something that sounds more like a pattern to me.

We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.

People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.

Sitting still as stone watching - watching People walking by you wondering why No one ever stops to talk or thinks about it - if they ever did