Top 55 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Weir

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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Bob Weir

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.

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.
I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.
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.
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 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 believe in death.
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.
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.
Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.
The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.
Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.
When we started out, there was so much cash involved that it attracted an element you'd rather not do business with.
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.
I thought being a cowboy would be a terribly romantic thing to do. But it wasn't. I shoveled a lot of stalls.
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'm still good for hitting the road. I'll be doing that a fair bit.
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.
They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models. — © Bob Weir
They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models.
Whatever I'm going to be doing, a lot of it will be furthering this heritage, this legacy.
Looking back, I guess I've lived an unusual life.
What I like best about music is when time goes away.
Both my kids like Adele, and I gotta say, the girl can sing.
Be as in touch with your dreams as you can be.
The same song on a different day was a different song.
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.
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.
Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't.
Everybody has something to bring to the table.
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.
We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.
The bulk of my input comes from my peers.
We have cultural depth. We get all kinds of stuff to chew on, to live on.
The meetings can be a lot of fun or they can be frustrating.
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.
Certain kinds of people just can't live life taking risks with adventure.
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.
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.
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.
Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls. — © Bob Weir
Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.
That's right! The women are smarter!
We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.
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.
Slowly you become your own man.
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.
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.
I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.
Dynamic benign neglect.
Our lives are interesting.
Grace isn't enough. You've got to intend to be there when it's happening. — © Bob Weir
Grace isn't enough. You've got to intend to be there when it's happening.
More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.
The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.
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.
Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.
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.
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