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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

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Bob Weir
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: October 16
Composer
Guitarist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
California
Robert Hall Weir
Pervasive
Careful
Parents
Parent
Society
Kids
Trying
Always

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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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Our lives are interesting.
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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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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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The meetings can be a lot of fun or they can be frustrating.
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Grace isn't enough. You've got to intend to be there when it's happening.
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Slowly you become your own man.
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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.
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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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Dynamic benign neglect.
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We have cultural depth. We get all kinds of stuff to chew on, to live on.
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Everybody has something to bring to the table.
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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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The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.
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What I like best about music is when time goes away.
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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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Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't.
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