Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews
David John "Dave" Matthews (born January 9, 1967 is a South African-American singer-songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band. Matthews was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and lived in both South Africa and the United States while growing up. Matthews mainly plays acoustic guitar, which he started playing at the age of nine...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth9 January 1967
CityJohannesburg, South Africa
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"
If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing you may find you re missing all the rest
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
I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.
I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.
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 are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.
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.
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.
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 think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.
Life it seems a struggle between what we think and what we see
I'm not a real gadgety person. In fact, some people think that I'm kind of primitive.
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.