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David John Matthews is a South African-born American singer, songwriter, musician, actor and record label owner, best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band. Matthews was born in Johannesburg, and moved frequently between South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States while growing up. Matthews started playing acoustic guitar at the age of nine.

From 1991 to 2003, Matthews predominantly focused on songwriting and performing with the Dave Matthews Band, which he started in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991. Since then, he has also done various solo performances and produced other records. During the period from 2000 to 2010, his band sold more tickets and earned more money than any other act in North America. The band's 2012 album Away from the World made them the only group to have six consecutive studio albums debut at number one on the Billboard charts. This record was extended to seven consecutive number one albums with the 2018 release, Come Tomorrow.

In addition to music, Matthews has had multiple acting roles. He has also won two Grammy Awards: one with the Dave Matthews Band in 1997 for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group – "So Much to Say" and one in 2004 for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance – "Gravedigger" from his solo album. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. January 1967
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Famous Dave Matthews Quotes

“He wakes up in the morning
Does his teeth, bite to eat and he's rolling
Never changes a thing.
The week ends the week begins
She thinks, we look at each other
Wondering what the other is thinking
But we never say a thing
These crimes between us grow deeper.”

Dave Matthews

Ants Marching
Remember Two Things (1993)

“So let us sleep outside tonight,
Lay down in our mother's arms,
for here we can rest safely.”

Dave Matthews

One Sweet World
Remember Two Things (1993)

“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.”

Dave Matthews

The Song That Jane Likes
Remember Two Things (1993)

“You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you.”

Dave Matthews

Seek Up
Remember Two Things (1993)

“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.”

Dave Matthews

Intro to "Dancing Nancies", Live at Luther College (1999)

“Crazy how it feels tonight
Crazy how you make it all alright love
You crush me with the things you do
And I do for you anything too.”

Dave Matthews

Crush
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)

Dave Matthews Quotes about love

“Move into kiss those sweet sugar lips, baby looks just like love.”

Dave Matthews

Busted Stuff
Busted Stuff (2002)

“Lying under this spell you cast on me
Each moment
The more I love you.”

Dave Matthews

Crush
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)

“Now let's make this an evening
Lovers for a night, lovers for tonight.
Stay here with me, love, tonight.
Just for an evening
When we make
Our passion pictures.
You and me twist up,
Secret creatures.
And we'll stay here.
Tomorrow go back to being friends.”

Dave Matthews

Say Goodbye
Crash (1996)

“Without hatred where's the light?
Without darkness where's the love?”

Dave Matthews

JTR
The Lillywhite Sessions (2001)

“Being a physicist, my father was a great believer in progress, but he also loved nature. He was a photographer, and outside of taking the occasional family photographs, all he did was photograph nature. He loved birds. That meant a lot to me growing up. Healthy progress also means we have to be concerned for the environment. That may have something to do with what I believe about farming.”

Dave Matthews

"The Craftsman: Dave Matthews," interview by Dave Hoekstra for Farm Aid

“Hey my love do you believe that we might last a thousand years or more if not for this?”

Dave Matthews

Two Step
Crash (1996)

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“That's the magic of this band: shooting from the hip. The lights have to follow our cues, because we're not going to follow their cues. We're not going to stick to a song the way it's supposed to be. Everything is up to us. That's music to me. That's American music. We're an American band.”

Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews, Rolling Stone interview "The Boys of Summer" (June 16, 2005). Eliscu, Jenny (2005). "The Boys of Summer" http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/davematthewsband/articles/story/7371942/the_boys_of_summer Rolling Stone (accessed June 19. 2006)

“I need so.. to be in your arms, see your smile, hold you close.”

Dave Matthews

The Stone
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)

“You know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her.”

Dave Matthews

Busted Stuff
Busted Stuff (2002)

Dave Matthews Quotes

“If I go before I’m old,
Oh brother of mine please don’t forget me if I go.
Bartender please, fill my glass for me?
With the wine you gave Jesus that set him free,
after three days in the ground.”

Dave Matthews

Bartender
Busted Stuff (2002)

“I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.”

Dave Matthews

So Much to Say
Crash (1996)

“Candyman tempting the thoughts of a
Sweet tooth tortured by the weight loss
Program cutting the corners.
Loose end, loose end, cut, cut.
On the fence, could not to offend.
Cut, cut, cut, cut.”

Dave Matthews

Ants Marching
Remember Two Things (1993)

“Celebrate we will
Because life is short
But sweet for certain
We're climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue.”

Dave Matthews

Two Step
Crash (1996)

“Our good friend LeRoi Moore passed on and gave up his ghost today, and we will miss him forever.”

Dave Matthews

Concert the night of Moore's death. http://www.nme.com/news/dave-matthews-band/39071 (2008)

“Funny the way it is, if you think about it.
Somebody's going hungry, someone else is eating out.
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong.
Somebody's heart is broken, it becomes your favorite song.”

Dave Matthews

Funny the Way It Is
Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (2009)

“It all comes down to nothing…”

Dave Matthews

Typical Situation
Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)

“There’s an emptiness inside her
And she’d do anything to fill it in.
And though it’s red blood bleeding from her now,
It’s more like cold blue ice in her heart.
She feels like kicking out all the windows,
And setting fire to this life.
She could change everything about her using colors bold and bright,
But all the colors mix together - to grey.”

Dave Matthews

Grey Street
Busted Stuff (2002)

“And as you go I will spread my wings.
Yes, I will call this home.
I have no time to justify to you,
Fool, you're blind, move aside for me.
All I can say to you my new neighbor,
You must move on or I will bury you.”

Dave Matthews

Don't Drink the Water
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)

“And I can't believe that we would lie in our graves,
Dreaming of things that we might have been.”

Dave Matthews

Lie in Our Graves
Crash (1996)

“I will go in this way
Oh and I'll find my own way out.”

Dave Matthews

#41
Crash (1996)

“Look, here are we on this starry night staring into space, and I must say I feel as small as dust lying down here.”

Dave Matthews

Pig
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)

“The road to you is long, and I've been on it for a while.”

Dave Matthews

#40
Listener Supported (1999)

“We're strange allies,
With warring hearts.
What wild-eyed beast you be?
The Space Between
The wicked lies we tell
And hope to keep us safe from the pain.”

Dave Matthews

The Space Between
Everyday (2001)

“Oh! We already, we done already done it, done it, dammit! I could you know, like, sing a thing, and then not sing it for a little while, and then sing it again… and people would be like, "Why'd he sing that again?"”

Dave Matthews

Before "Halloween", Live at Luther College

“Don't you know when you give life, then you become what you are?”

Dave Matthews

What You Are
Everyday (2001)

“Satellite headlines read
Someone's secrets you've seen.
Eyes and ears have been
Satellite dish in my yard.
Tell me more, tell me more.
Who's the king of your Satellite Castle?”

Dave Matthews

Satellite
Remember Two Things (1993)

“You've got your ball,
You've got your chain.
Tied to me tight, tie me up again.
Who's got their claws
In you my friend?
Into your heart, I'll beat again.
Sweet like candy to my soul,
Sweet you rock
And sweet you roll.
Lost for you, I'm so lost for you.”

Dave Matthews

Crash into Me
Crash (1996)

“We were walking
Just the other day.
It was so hot outside,
You could fry an egg.
Remember you were talking,
I watched as sweat ran down your face.
Reached up and I caught it at your chin,
Licked my fingertips.”

Dave Matthews

Stay
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)

“There's often a lot of stupid ideas like "you all dress as fruits and pretend you're selling underpants" or "we'll put you on a bed of nails and drive a truck over the top and photograph you" for the cover.”

Dave Matthews

Q&A: The Dave Matthews Band, interview by Richard Deitsch on CNN.com http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/richard_deitsch/07/21/media.circus/index.html

“She prays to God most every night
And though she swears he doesn't listen there's a little hope in her he might.”

Dave Matthews

Grey Street
Busted Stuff (2002)

“Every day things change, but basically they stay the same.”

Dave Matthews

Seek Up
Remember Two Things (1993)

“I am who I am who I am who am I
Requesting some enlightenment
Could I have been anyone other than me?”

Dave Matthews

Dancing Nancies
Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)

“If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him.”

Dave Matthews

Seek Up
Remember Two Things (1993)

“What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me.”

Dave Matthews

Jimi Thing
Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)

“Turns out not where, but who you're with, that really matters.”

Dave Matthews

The Best Of What's Around
Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)

“Come and relax now, put your troubles down.
No need to bear the weight of your worries, just let them all fall away.”

Dave Matthews

Pantala Naga Pampa
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)

“I was just wondering if you'd come along,
Hold up my head when my head won't hold on.
I'll do the same if the same is what you want.
But if not I'll go… I'll go alone.”

Dave Matthews

The Stone
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)

“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.”

Dave Matthews

Baby Blue
Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (2009)

“Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die.”

Dave Matthews

Ants Marching
Remember Two Things (1993)

“Leave the big door open, everyone'll come around…”

Dave Matthews

Typical Situation
Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)

“A rolling stone, that gathers no moss, but leaves a trail of busted stuff.”

Dave Matthews

Busted Stuff
Busted Stuff (2002)

“I'm not going to change my ways just to please you, or appease you.”

Dave Matthews

Seek Up
Remember Two Things (1993)

“Excuse me please one more drink.
Could 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.
One more drink and I’ll be gone.”

Dave Matthews

Grace Is Gone
Busted Stuff (2002)

“So why would you care
To get out of this place?
You and me and all our friends,
Such a happy human race.
Eat, drink and be merry,
For tomorrow we die.”

Dave Matthews

Tripping Billies
Remember Two Things (1993)

“The future is no place to place your better days.”

Dave Matthews

Cry Freedom
Crash (1996)

“Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.”

Dave Matthews

Grey Street
Busted Stuff (2002)

“I don't understand at best,
I cannot speak for all the rest.
But you may find a lifetime's passed you by.
Every dog has its day, every day has its way
Of being forgotten.”

Dave Matthews

What Would You Say
Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)

“See you and me, have a better time than most can dream.
Have it better than the best, so we can pull on through.
Whatever tears at us… whatever holds us down,
And if nothing can be done, well make the best of whats around.”

Dave Matthews

The Best Of What's Around
Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)

“Don't burn the day away.”

Dave Matthews

Pig
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)

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