Dave Matthews
You know she's going to leave my broken heart behind her...Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Lying
I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments.Collection: Guitar
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.Collection: Ambition
Remember that there are hundreds of thousands of things you can eat that are not cheese.Collection: Cheese
I like to think I'm a night person, because that's my job, but now I'm a father of three. I'm trying to become more of a morning person. I don't know if it will last. I have two choices, right? Either I'm bitter about getting up early, or I start drinking wine earlier and get to bed.Collection: Morning
Because one of the properties of music is to entertain and to, I don't mean this lightly, distract us from the things that pull us down. Music should be not only a source for political ideas but also a source of hope.Collection: Mean
And when you wake, you will fly away, holding tight to the legs of all your angels. Goodbye, my love, into your blue, blue eyes.Collection: Goodbye
When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.Collection: Reflection
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.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Stars
A vote for change is a vote for a stronger, safer, healthier America. A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America. It is our duty to this beautiful land to let our voices be heard. That's the reason for the tour. That's why I'm doing it.Collection: Beautiful
So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh.Collection: Night
Goodnight moon. Sweet dreams. Smile kindly upon this little blue gum ball of us while we sleep.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Wall
When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other.Collection: New York
I'm not a real gadgety person. But bottle opener is probably the gadget I can't live without. Actually, I can open a bottle of beer pretty easily without it, but wine is always too much of a pain in the (rear) to open that up. So a corkscrew is probably the gadget that I can't live without.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Atlas
It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle.Collection: Country
Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and dieCollection: Time
First time I kissed you, I lost my legs.Collection: Kissing
What in the world would I sing for if I had it all?Collection: Inspirational
I think making things that aren't necessarily shiny, happy feelings, putting them in that environment is sometimes an easy way to deal with the ugliness. Like, I know that as a kid, that I found - I think I learned this a bit from my mother - that if I could be as warm around strangers, no matter how strange or what different environment I was in, that people tended to be warm back.Collection: Mother
Isn't it strange how we move out lives for another day? Like skipping a beat, what if a great wave should wash us all away?Collection: Moving
I'm not a real gadgety person. In fact, some people think that I'm kind of primitive.Collection: Real
If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him.Collection: Fall
You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you.Collection: War
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.Collection: Dream
I feel that I have worked my whole life to get to the point where I should have a good understanding of women.Collection: Should Have
Leave the big door open, everyone'll come around.Collection: Doors
My reaction to Radiohead isn't as simple as jealousy. Jealousy just burns; Radiohead infuriate me. But if it were only that, I wouldn't go back and listen to those records again and again. Listening to Radiohead makes me fell like I'm a Salieri to their Mozart. Yorke's lyrics make me want to give up. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song - let alone album after album.Collection: Beautiful
Love, you drive me to distraction.Collection: Love You
Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.Collection: Wish
I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.Collection: Jobs
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.Collection: Song
I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.Collection: Friendship
In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.Collection: Friendship
I grew up in a very politically aware family. My mother always taught me to question everything, never believing anything simply at face value - especially the nicest, most adamant politicians.Collection: Mother
So let us sleep outside tonight, Lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely.Collection: Mother