Dave Matthews Quotes

But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.

The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.

My favorite Dylan song? I think it's 'Just Like a Woman.' It always makes me cry.

It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

It's amazing when I do a gig how many people of different ages come up to me afterwards and chat to me about songs. The emotions I feel are what any person can relate to. Sometimes I'm just a narrator.

Because of 'Wasn't Expecting That,' I've had a lot of people come up to me and say how I've written their lives or their grandparents' lives. It means the world to me that I helped in the tiniest way.

The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.

There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.

Music has brought me a lot of emotional moments.

The reason I connected with music was because of the stories that people were telling and making me feel when I listened to a song.

My approach to selecting a film is very simple - it should touch my heart.

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

Once you know the background of an individual, you can connect better with his or her music.

That's why I fell in love with country music: it made me feel something.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

The most incredible part of seeing people embrace and recognize my music is experiencing the lives of people when they are powerfully affected, encouraged, and personally impacted.

'Dirt On My Boots' is a very different song. I heard the melody, and I heard the lyrics, and I heard the drive of that song. I totally related. It was kinda me when I was on my bulldozer working for my dad.