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Dave Matthews Staying Positively Positive

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Young Hollywood

RJ here, we're hanging out at the Young Hollywood Studio with the one and only Gave Matthews.

Dave Matthews

I feel like I've broken the rules.

Young Hollywood

At least it's Young Hollywood. Was there one moment in your life that was sort of that epiphany that guided you to to get where you are right now?

Dave Matthews

I was being an idiot when I was uh six again. Um 100 years ago. I was singing like an idiot, which is one of the things I like to do, but particularly like an idiot, and my father said, "You sing so well that you can sing out of tune." And I remember that was one of the moments of my life that that that I that I think of that transformed me and made me think, "I can sing."

Young Hollywood

Are you a just go with it type of guy or are you a planner that has to have everything like set?

Dave Matthews

I've stumbled um willingly stumbled into every anything good that's ever happened to me. I I don't just go with it because uh it's I turn down things. So, that's how I guide myself is just I don't say yes to everything. I just say yes to some stuff, and that's how I guide myself. But, I don't I'm not pulling, I'm being pulled. That's how I. So, it's all about the guidance of how you do it. That's how Yeah. It's like, no, no, no. It's like skiing.

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Dave Matthews describes his career path as willingly stumbling into every good thing that has happened to him, guiding himself by saying yes to some opportunities and no to others.
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