Bob Weir Quotations

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

I'm looking forward to some more solo acoustic dates. That's a lot of fun for me, because I get to be alone with the song. And I get to hear every little nuance; if my instrument does something that I wasn't expecting, I get to chase that. Chase that down a little bit.

The same song on a different day was a different song.

Looking back, I guess I've lived an unusual life.

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

I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is 'beat the heat.' It's always July under the lights.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.

I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write books, our best shot is to write children's books, because we relate pretty readily on that level.

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.

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.

What's changed? I'm a dad. That's fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit. 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.

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.

Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.

More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.