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. Bob Weir Read Quote
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. Bob Weir Read Quote
We’d just signed with Arista, the record company. Arista was freaking about the phenomenon of tapers showing up at our shows. They were insisting that we put an end to this. And we just didn’t want to do that. Bob Weir Read Quote
I thought being a cowboy would be a terribly romantic thing to do. But it wasn’t. I shoveled a lot of stalls. Bob Weir Read Quote
I don’t know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music. Bob Weir Read Quote
Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff – I don’t think anyone’s going to be surprised to hear that. Bob Weir Read Quote
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. Bob Weir Read Quote
