Dave Matthews Quotes

I don't think anyone would bat an eye if I wrote a song.

The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

I wrote my first song when I was 6 years old. It was actually called 'Six Years Old.'

I just play the guitar and write songs.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

You can only follow what's on your mind. In fact, a song is something you write because you can't sleep unless you write it.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

I try to write five or six songs each year and not just in one genre.

I'm So Sorry' is probably one of my favorite songs that I've written... I wrote it very quickly and confidently. And then I didn't question it.