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" 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. "

Bob Weir

Showing Up

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" 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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Bob Weir

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Death

" 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. "

" Both my kids like Adele, and I gotta say, the girl can sing. "

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

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Passion

Sometimes

" 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. "

" 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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Looking

" When we started out, there was so much cash involved that it attracted an element you'd rather not do business with. "

" 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. "

" The same song on a different day was a different song. "

" 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. "

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

" Whatever I'm going to be doing, a lot of it will be furthering this heritage, this legacy. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 thought being a cowboy would be a terribly romantic thing to do. But it wasn't. I shoveled a lot of stalls. "