Bob Weir

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

One of the things that the Grateful Dead did, way back when, was we spent a lot of time just turning each other on to music. If somebody was listening to something that really caught their ear, they'd make sure that everybody else in the band heard it, and that came home for us in innumerable ways. ”

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. ”

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

I don't believe in death. ”