Dave Speak

This is a collaboration of quotes said by Dave and the rest of the guys. Some are stolen from The Jimi Thing (shhh) and others are ones that I have heard or come across.  If there are any others that you think belong here email me at erin_mccoy85@yahoo.com

"Napster: It is the future, in my opinion. That's the way music is going to be communicated around the world. The most important thing now is to embrace it, and that was the spirit by which we did this co-promotion."

"I will be your Dixie chicken if you be my Tennessee lamb, and we can walk together, Down in Dixieland"

"So, if you have a dollar or if you don't have a dollar, it don't matter, if you do could you throw a dollar in the Green Peace hat, so our children's children can look at that tree in real life instead of on National Geographic." This is the end of a story Dave told leading into "Ants Marching". The tree, in the story, is a South African tree near his old property which gave him the idea to write the song.

"I was thinkin', DAAAAAAAMMMNN, that girl was fine. I turned to tell her so and ask her if maybe she wanted to get a cup of who knows, coffee or something."

"Sex is good, nut love is better."

"Oh, don't worry, we're still gonna jam." (Dave, Coca Cola Starplex, Dallas, TX, August 12, 1998)

(as a reaction to all of the crickets swarming on stage) "...they're angels, all of them...well, maybe not the one that flew in my mouth..."(Dave, 8.13.98 Coca Cola Starplex, dallas, tx)

"Proud to be on the same channel as Kermit the Frog and Big Bird" (Continental Airline Arena - In the Spotlite Special)October 11, 1999

"My philosophy is instead of 'Just Say No'... Just say 'yes' at least once." "If you want to go to an island and sit there in the sand for the rest of your life, then go to the f*ckin island, And if you want to go to the moon, go to the god damn moon, and if you want to sit at home, then f*ckin sit at home!"

"So, there was this one time I was walking from this place called Port Elizabeth in South Africa to a place called Durban and it was a long fucking way. Well, I was actually hitchhiking which you can do sometimes there and be successful. And I was, unfortunately, not successful, and I walked my skinny chicken legs off. And I thought to myself...what the f*ck am I going to do with my life? Walking around in the middle of Africa, with nothing to do. What am I going to do? What am I going to do? I said, "Hey, I could be an accountant, I could be an explorer, I could be myself. Could I be somebody else? Don't you ever wonder..." --Dave Matthews on the making of Dancing Nancies

"I don't know a lot, I'm not a very smart man, but I know it's better to dance than it is to shoot somebody." Hilton Colisieum 12/16/98

"This song is about a really...a really great guy that got screeeeeeeeeeeewwwed!" The Christmas Song, Hilton Colisieum 12/16/98

"Sometimes there's an abundance of things and sometimes there is a lack, today there's an aboundance of Titties!(Dave at Woodstock 99 before Rhyme & Reason)

"I ain't promoting drinking or nothing, but whiskey comes from plants, and whatever comes from the ground has got to be good for you."-Dave Matthews

"A little bit of our history has a lot of poision in it." (Dave at "Storytellers" talking about "Don't Drink the Water")

"The Energizer bunny, he just keeps goin' and goin' and goin'...one day a giant hammer is gonna fall out of the sky and knock the shit out of him."

"Having sex is great... Making love is better"

"SCHWINGADINK ba ba da ba BOW WOW!"-11.03.92

(when looking at a rainbow over the ridge at the Gorge July 17, 1999) "Now that's a light show."

"Bust 'em in the head so they don't spoil the meat" -Charleston, SC 5/7/99

"If we were to go, 'Okay, let's get some crazy Virginia mountain fiddle goin' there and mix it up with a little New York be-bop, throw in a little '70s fusion with a Beatles bass line, and have the Lollipop Guild singing over James Taylor playing guitar.' It wouldn't work. It's just us playing and I feel blessed to be part of it. All the arguments we have are overshadowed by our confidence in the music." Dave(talking about their style of music and how all of the members came from different musical backgrounds; Dave - "guitar boogie", LeRoi and Stefan - jazz and blues, Boyd - classical, Carter - educated in classical but got into jazz)

"I hope the beer is cold cause its f*cking hot! I don't mean to swear for anything but affect, so if it's offensive, forget about it." Dave @Trax, 7-15-93

"Y'all smell good this evening." - 9/11/99 PBS special

"I don't know, I never been there. I don't care about what you think about UVa. or about anything. My dear man go tell your mother, go make a phone call and tell your mother that you don't like UVa., don't tell me, I dont care!"--Dave's response to an interruption during a live performance. The person yelled out "UVa. Sucks"

"It's f*cking hot, but it's not too hot to f*ck"

"It's one year later, I'm one year older, and one year closer to being dead" Dave on his birthday

Dave has a little indigestion and asks Carter Beuford for some alka-selters. Carter give some to Dave and Dave starts to sing "I love Carter I love Carter, Carter is my jesus".---- On the Road W/DMB By Jack Bailey

"So what I'm saying....I guess what I'm saying is...don't f*ck your friends.
After Say Goodbye 2-10-99 Paige Aud. Durham,NC

"Hey, I am sure that you are a really nice person and everything, you with the red thing, and you're prolly all nice people, but would you put that motherf*cker away? Please put that motherf*cker away."

"what is that I smell out there....? do i smell a lil reefer in the crowd tonite...?" - ~David Matthews - veteran's stadium- 5/21/99

"I'm just another eating sh**ing farting fool like every one"
"Okay, so ah, Turner and ah...... hold on............okay..Turner and Tera met here last year and they were sittin' up on the lawn.... You know bumpin' uglies....." (Crowd Cheers)....... anyways, tera and Turner got married yesterday.....so ah, this is from tera to Turner......to many years of..ugly buming

"this is a sweet song, a sweet song...I hope" (before Crash on Luther College cd)

"Well, here I was just takin' a piss not ten seconds ago. Thank you very much, we're the Dave Matthews Band."

"How's everyone up there on the grass..........well down here were on grass too."

"Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happen"

"NO REASON TO GET EXCITED!"

"yall smokin' them reefers out there" - Hershey stadium summer 98

"What if you weren't reading this?" -Dave's comment about Dancing Nancies

Guy in audience: "You're soo cool!!"

Dave: (Singing) "You don't knooooww me"