Top 55 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Weir

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Robert Hall Weir is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead. Weir also founded and played in several other bands during and after his career with the Grateful Dead, including Kingfish, the Bob Weir Band, Bobby and the Midnites, Scaring the Children, RatDog, and Furthur, which he co-led with former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. In 2015, Weir, along with former Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, joined with Grammy-winning singer/guitarist John Mayer, bassist Oteil Burbridge, and keyboardist Jeff Chimenti to form the band Dead & Company. The band remains active.

American - Musician | Born: October 16, 1947

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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.

Bob Weir

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

Bob Weir

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

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

I don't believe in death.

Bob Weir

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.

Bob Weir

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

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

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

Bob Weir

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

Bob Weir

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

Bob Weir

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

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

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.

Bob Weir

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

Bob Weir

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.

Bob Weir

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

Bob Weir

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

Bob Weir

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

Bob Weir

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

Bob Weir

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

Bob Weir

Be as in touch with your dreams as you can be.

Bob Weir

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

Bob Weir

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.

Bob Weir

That Cornell show that - that people talk about, I can't remember that specifically. It didn't stand out for me on that tour. The whole tour was like that for me.

Bob Weir

Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't.

Bob Weir

Everybody has something to bring to the table.

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.

Bob Weir

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

Bob Weir

The bulk of my input comes from my peers.

Bob Weir

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

Bob Weir

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

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.

Bob Weir

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

Bob Weir

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.

Bob Weir

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.

Bob Weir

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.

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.

Bob Weir

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.

Bob Weir

Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.

Bob Weir

That's right! The women are smarter!

Bob Weir

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

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.

Bob Weir

Slowly you become your own man.

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.

Bob Weir

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.

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.

Bob Weir

Dynamic benign neglect.

Bob Weir

Our lives are interesting.

Bob Weir

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

Bob Weir

More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.

Bob Weir

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

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.

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.

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.

Bob Weir

Top 55 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Weir

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