Dave Matthews Quotes

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

It's hard to be the one that stands out when, you know, in a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a corps de ballet.

Somebody's got to tell all the people to be like the water

I've always been a good ensemble player.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.

If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well.

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.

In the Eagles, you have specific assignments. You have vocal parts and musical parts that need to be exactly in place at the right time. And if all of us do our job, it becomes something bigger than any of us.

I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.

It's highly collaborative, musical theater, so everybody has got to somehow get along.

All the small things matter. Communication. It doesn't matter what you are doing. You have to be on the same page.

Our ancient forebears who learned to synchronize the movements of dance were those with the capacity to predict what others around them were going to do and signal to others what they wanted to do next. These forms of communication may well have helped lead to the formation of larger human communities.

As a group we must make sure we're all in sync with each other. We need to be connected through each other's actions.

It's important for us to all be aligned with the same energy on stage.

Teamwork is a strategic decision.

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path. ... He has tipped us over, all of us in our teetering expectancy, and now we are pouring toward him, coursing on a wave of sound, of roaring shouts and applause. ... They are the moon; we are a tide, their tide, and under their direction we will wipe clean all the sickness and blight from the world.

You can't just put any four people together and it goes 'yaaaaah', y'know?

It is time for us to come together as one united people.

A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob.

People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's not the case.