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Bob Weir, born on October 16, 1947, is an American singer-songwriter. He is a founding member of the iconic rock band Grateful Dead, known for his distinctive guitar playing and heartfelt singing. Weir's musical style blends folk, rock, and blues elements, leaving a profound impact on music history.

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“I think when somebody lives in your head and in your heart for a long time, you carry them around when their body is gone.”

Death Loss Grief Mourning Remembrance

Author:Bob Weir

“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.”

Kids Grows Bits Watches Minutes Changed Dad Fundamentals Complexity I've Learned Bugs Crawling

Author:Bob Weir

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

Different Song Different Day

Author:Bob Weir

“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.”

Ifs Writing Song Pages Staring Blank Songwriters Blank Pages

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“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Important Real Trajectory

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“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.”

Ifs World Children I Can Ends Left Cold Tomorrow Glasses What If Gray Ashes This Too Shall Pass Tomorrow Brings

Author:Bob Weir

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

Way Made Happens Song Effort Imagine Conscious

Author:Bob Weir

“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.”

Ifs Writing Children Stills Book Bits Levels Focus Figures Shots Relate My Sister Children's Books Best Shot

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“That's right! The women are smarter!”

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“Slowly you become your own man.”

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“Dynamic benign neglect.”

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“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.”

People Ifs Want Ideas Promoting Institute

Author:Bob Weir

“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.”

Ifs Ideas Attention Meetings Instance Boards Good Ideas Board Meetings

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

Fun Meetings Frustrating

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“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.”

People Eye Audience Doctors Lawyer Visible Percentages Housewife Stockbrokers

Author:Bob Weir

“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.”

Kind Long Eye Stuff Hair Sticks Ties Stockbrokers Tie Dye

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

Trying Dangerous Danger Adventure

Author:Bob Weir

“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.”

Mean Attitude Written Adventure Prevailing

Author:Bob Weir

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

Trying Kids Parent Careful Be Careful Always Trying This Society

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

People Kind Certain Risk Adventure Live Life Taking Risks

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

Attitude Crazy Danger Invites

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

Littles Our Lives Adventure Carrie Inviting Baggage

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“Our lives are interesting.”

Interesting Our Lives

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

Kind Stuff Depth All Kinds

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“Everybody has something to bring to the table.”

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“The bulk of my input comes from my peers.”

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“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.”

Heart Stuff Tvs My Heart

Author:Bob Weir

“Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't.”

Sometimes Magic

Author:Bob Weir

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

Enough Grace Happenings

Author:Bob Weir

“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.”

Firsts Sometimes Walks Stage Huge Notes Kicks

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“Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.”

Girl Meetings Guitar Cycles Bike Bicycle Cycling Bikers Biking Carbon Cycle

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“More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.”

Fun Glasses Milk Frogs

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

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“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Mean Stills Values Democracy Exercise Vote Damn Workout Right To Vote

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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.”

Light Wanted Challenges Music Fans Ears New Music

Author:Bob Weir

About the Author

Born: October 16, 1947
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 35

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