I think it’s real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.
BOB WEIRThe rule is not written anywhere, it’s not etched in any – but, I mean, that’s the prevailing attitude of this entire society. Don’t have an adventure.
More Bob Weir Quotes
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The ones that catch your eye are the ones that are basically people who live on the road and follow us around. They’re a small percentage of the audience, but they’re quite visible. The ones who aren’t visible are the stockbrokers, lawyers, doctors, housewives.
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The bulk of my input comes from my peers.
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More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.
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What’s changed? I’m a dad. That’s fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit.
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The same song on a different day was a different song.
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Our lives are interesting.
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What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can’t tell you child, ‘this too shall pass.’ If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there’s nothing left to say.
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You can watch a bug crawling around for minutes at a time–just sit and marvel at its complexity, the utter bugness of it. I’ve learned to do that again.
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I have not made many conscious efforts to “re-imagine” songs. I just let them happen the way they’re going to happen.
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That’s right! The women are smarter!
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We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.
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What I like best about music is when time goes away.
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Dynamic benign neglect.
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We have a society that’s trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.
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I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
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