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 WEIRIf for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you’re not going to get everybody’s attention.
More Bob Weir Quotes
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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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We have cultural depth. We get all kinds of stuff to chew on, to live on.
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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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Slowly you become your own man.
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The bulk of my input comes from my peers.
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Our lives are interesting.
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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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Certain kinds of people just can’t live life taking risks with adventure.
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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 pervasive attitude is that it’s crazy to invite more danger into your life.
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If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you’re not going to get everybody’s attention.
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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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The same song on a different day was a different song.
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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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Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.
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