Bob Weir quotes:

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

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.

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 believe in death.

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

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

Sometimes it's a huge amble, where you're just on top, on the lid, and it's not going anywhere, and sometimes you walk on the stage and from the first note, the afterburner kicks in and you can't stop it.

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.

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.

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

Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls

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

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.

Dynamic benign neglect.

Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.

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

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.

Everybody has something to bring to the table.

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

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

More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.

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.

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.

We have cultural depth. We get all kinds of stuff to chew on, to live on.

Grace isn't enough. You've got to intend to be there when it's happening.

The bulk of my input comes from my peers.

I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my head from TV, and especially I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my heart from TV.

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

The stockbrokers, their hair isn't long and full of leaves and stuff like that, so they don't catch your eye. They're wearing the tie-dye, so they don't stick out, but you don't see them. The ones you see are the ones with the leaves in their hair, the matted hair and all that kind of stuff.

Slowly you become your own man.

If you want to promote anything, all the work that you put into it is basically promoting the idea of it so that people will go for it. And if they don't go for it, you can't institute it. You can't do it.

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.

The meetings can be a lot of fun or they can be frustrating.

Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't.

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

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

Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.

Our lives are interesting.

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

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