Quotessence
Home / Authors / Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews Quotes

Singer-songwriter

Filter quotes by topic

AllThinkingIfsPeopleWayDreamWorldLooksKnowsLittlesLifeShouldSometimesWantWonderBelieveFeelsGivingMindSongEye

Famous Dave Matthews Quotes

“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.”

PeopleIfsMindLooksCountryHardAmericaLawSidesLinesRaceTalkingPovertyAliveBattleRacismMajorityPrisonAcknowledgeOur SocietyDivides
Author:Dave Matthews
Create image

“I think we have to be active in teaching our children, and teaching each other. 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. We have a military, but what if there was a department devoted entirely and truthfully to finding peaceful resolutions?”

IfsThinkingChildrenWould BeKindnessTeachingMilitaryFindingsOur ChildrenActivePeacefulDepartmentWhat IfResolutionDevotedFinding PeacePeaceful Resolution
Author:Dave Matthews
Create image

“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.”

IfsThinkingWantWritingMindHumansSometimesSpeakStuffRacePositionJudgingAngryFingersCloudsHuman RaceRighteousnessScreamHopelessnessPitsCheerleaderPointersShout Out
Author:Dave Matthews
Create image

“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.”

IfsWantGivingDreamBeautifulSongSimpleRecordsListeningGiving UpAlbumsReactionsAgain And AgainWildest DreamsRadioheadSalieri
Author:Dave Matthews
Create image