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.
BILL WALTONI love to play music. I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it .
More Bill Walton Quotes
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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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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I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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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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I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there.
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Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
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Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.
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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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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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Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
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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 believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You’re talking about men vs. boys.
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