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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.

Bob Weir

Dynamic benign neglect.
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Benign Neglect
Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.
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Cycling Girl Guitar
Certain kinds of people just can’t live life taking risks with adventure.
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Adventure Life Live People
That’s right! The women are smarter!
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Smarter
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.
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People Real Thinking
The bulk of my input comes from my peers.
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Bulk Input Peers
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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Adventure Danger Trying
What’s changed? I’m a dad. That’s fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit.
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Dad Kids Watches
The pervasive attitude is that it’s crazy to invite more danger into your life.
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Attitude Crazy Danger
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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Effort Song Way
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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Attention Boards Ideas
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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Again Crawling Learn Minutes
Our lives are interesting.
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Interesting Lives
The 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.
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Adventure Attitude Mean
More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.
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Frogs Fun Glasses
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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Doctors Eye People Percentage Visible

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 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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