I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that’s what the Grateful Dead is all about.
BILL WALTONKazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
More Bill Walton Quotes
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I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.
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I love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
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I’m a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.
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I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.
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That’s what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I’m selling hope and life and success and that’s why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.
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Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
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My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it’s the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan’s beard look good.
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I mean, I’m 6-foot-11, I’ve got red hair, freckles, I’m a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I’ve got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I’m a Deadhead.
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.
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If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who’s going to stop him?
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