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 WeirThe 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 WeirIf 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 WeirI 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 WeirI have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.
Bob WeirI 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 WeirWe have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.
Bob WeirWe 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 WeirYour parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.
Bob WeirThe 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 WeirThe 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 WeirIf 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 WeirThe 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 WeirI 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 WeirSometimes 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