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Dave Matthews is an American renowned singer-songwriter, born on January 9, 1967. His musical style blends elements of rock, bluegrass, and jazz, winning him a global fan base. He is best known for his band, Dave Matthews Band (DMB), which has achieved significant commercial success and critical acclaim since the 1990s.

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

People Thinking Kind Persons Real Facts Primitive

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“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 Thinking Littles Environment Cost Ambition Solutions Gains Desperate Pathetic Our Environment Little Time Misuse Betterment Bickering

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“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.”

People Thinking Feels Should Important Talking Position Wall Standing Stores Groceries Grocery Stores Checking Out Walls Up

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

Thinking Way Should Enemy Solutions

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“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.”

Thinking Kids Young Loses Quality Growing Up Growing New York Racism Innocence Flawed Kids Growing Up

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“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?”

Ifs Thinking Children Would Be Kindness Teaching Military Findings Our Children Active Peaceful Department What If Resolution Devoted Finding Peace Peaceful Resolution

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

People Thinking Goal Busy Active Too Busy Rushing

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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.”

Thinking Feels Writing Littles Sometimes Hard Moments Feelings Dream Able Felt Bits Loss Nice Tree Little Bit Universal Relate

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

Thinking Seems Struggle

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Persons Two Jobs Lasts Night Choices Three Father Morning Bed Wine Drinking Bitter Up Early Drinking Wine Two Choices Morning Person Night Person

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“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.”

People Thinking Different Sometimes Feelings Kids Mother Easy Environment Strange Stranger Ugliness

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

People Thinking Believe Share Economics Don't Believe Trickle Down Trickle Down Economics

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

Thinking Socialism Bad Word

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

Thinking Believe Fighting Peachy

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

People Thinking Sometimes Goodness

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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.”

Thinking Believe Kind Persons States Grace Violence Absence Joyful Kinder Kind Person

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Mind Humans Sometimes Speak Stuff Race Position Judging Angry Fingers Clouds Human Race Righteousness Scream Hopelessness Pits Cheerleader Pointers Shout Out

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“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.”

Thinking Kids America Faces Found Racism South Your Face South Africa Thrust Racism In America

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“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.”

Thinking Men Sometimes Too Much Faults Generous Flaws Joyful Packages Resilient Very Sad Sad Man

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“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.”

Thinking Way Writing Littles Young Critics Educated Fearless Internals Efficient Avenues Craftsman

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“Excuse me please, one more drink Could you make it strong cause I don't need to think She broke my heart, my grace is gone One more drink and I'll move on.”

Thinking Needs Heart Moving Strong Causes Gone Grace My Heart Drink Please Drinking Excuse Broke Excuse Me Broke My Heart

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“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”

People Ifs Thinking Stills Wonder Walking Sitting Stones Sitting Still

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

Ifs Thinking Life May Change Missing Adages

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“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"”

Thinking World I Can Self Dream Thousand Hey Around The World

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“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”

Thinking Littles Sometimes Problem Dream Light Darkness Flash Darling

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“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”

Thinking Looks Memories Streets Staring Grey Stumbling

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“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.”

Thinking Writing Trying May Reason Sound Guitar Patterns Rhythm Flaws Unusual

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About the Author

Born: January 9, 1967
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 188

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