South African - Musician | January 9, 1967 -
Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.
Dave Matthews
CarWellBeenFewWrecks
I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.
SilenceControlYouSituationKnow
So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.
LiveWayTalkMeanPlanetHere
I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.
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I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.
GodRelationshipKnowSongsMeans
When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.
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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.
TimeExperienceFearlessWritingYou
I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.
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I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.
MusicArtMeanAlwaysAnythingBeen
I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me.
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There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.
WorkTogetherWarPeopleWorldLong
The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.
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