Music is critical in our lives and culture. It’s the inspiration that drives us. It’s also the window to our souls. It’s a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we’re going.
BILL WALTONI 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.
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The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I’m an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.
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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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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 believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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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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A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
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In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
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Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It’s up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
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I’m a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.
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The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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