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Dynamic benign neglect.

Bob Weir

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Bob Weir
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: October 16
Composer
Guitarist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
California
Robert Hall Weir
Benign
Dynamic
Neglect

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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.
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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.
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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.
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We have cultural depth. We get all kinds of stuff to chew on, to live on.
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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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Certain kinds of people just can't live life taking risks with adventure.
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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.
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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.
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We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.
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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.
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