Quotes from Bob Weir

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.

I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

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.

When we started out, there was so much cash involved that it attracted an element you'd rather not do business with.

Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.

Slowly you become your own man.

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.

One of the things that the Grateful Dead did, way back when, was we spent a lot of time just turning each other on to music. If somebody was listening to something that really caught their ear, they'd make sure that everybody else in the band heard it, and that came home for us in innumerable ways.

The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

The premise that we're working with is that when most people go to a show, they're not really watching what's going on onstage. They may be watching what's on the screen. But when the songs are playing in their mind's eye, they're actually watching a movie.

Whatever I'm going to be doing, a lot of it will be furthering this heritage, this legacy.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.

They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models.

I thought being a cowboy would be a terribly romantic thing to do. But it wasn't. I shoveled a lot of stalls.

If Trump wins, I think the whole thing is going to blow up, and we're going to start over, and that's always a good thing to do.

Certain kinds of people just can't live life taking risks with adventure.

The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

Both my kids like Adele, and I gotta say, the girl can sing.

The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

I'm still good for hitting the road. I'll be doing that a fair bit.

I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted, that it's incumbent not to think about giving something back.