Bob Weir Quotes

#1. Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.

Wavy Gravy

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

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.

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#6. More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.

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

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

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

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#11. 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.

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#12. I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

John Mayer

#13. Conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.

Kelly Miller

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

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#15. Useless, like a revolution.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

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

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#17. 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.

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

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#19. 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

#20. If I were to run for president, then people would debate the pros and cons of what's wrong with me in increasingly aggressive 140 character tweets and Facebook status updates, and, inevitably, everyone would end up fighting.

Jen Lancaster

#21. 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.

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#22. Pause and remember - The spiritual path is not always going to be smooth and easy. There are going to be difficult situations, hardships, losses and lessons. Don't lose faith along the way. You are exactly where you need to be.

Jennifer Young

#23. I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

Roger Maris

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

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#25. You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.

L. Neil Smith

#26. 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.

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#27. But my family has always stuck to fabrication, with the idea that you can be decent at two high art forms or you can excel at one. We excel. Excellently.

Laini Taylor

#28. 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.

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#29. 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.

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

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