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Robert Hall "Bob" Weir (/wɪər/ WEER; born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead. Weir also founded and played in several other bands during and after his career with the Grateful Dead, including Kingfish, the Bob Weir Band, Bobby and the Midnites, Scaring the Children, RatDog and Furthur, co-led by former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. In 2015, Weir, along with former Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, joined with Grammy-winning singer/guitarist John Mayer to form the band Dead & Company. Weir continued to tour with Dead & Company in 2016, 2017, and continues in 2018.

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The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.

Attitude, Crazy, Danger, Pervasive

We have cultural depth. We get all kinds of stuff to chew on, to live on.

Cultural, Depth, Kind, Kinds, Live, Stuff

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.

Book, Children, Focus, Level, Retain, Writing

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.

Pages, Part, Roughest, Song, Start, Writing

Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.

Always Trying, Careful, Kids, Parent, Parents, Society

The 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.

Eye, Hair, Leaves, Long, Ones, Ties

If 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.

Attention, Boards, Good, Ideas, Instance, Meeting

Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.

Bicycles, Cycling, Girl, Guitar, Guitars, Meeting

Grace isn't enough. You've got to intend to be there when it's happening.

Enough, Grace, Happenings, Intend

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.

People, Real, See, Think, Thinking

That's right! The women are smarter!

Smarter, Women, Right

Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't.

Magic, Sometimes, Works

We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.

Adventure, Baggage, Carries, Life, Littles

Certain kinds of people just can't live life taking risks with adventure.

Adventure, Certain, Live Life, People, Taking

Our lives are interesting.

Interesting, Our Lives, Lives

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.

Doctors, Eye, Follow, Housewives, People, Stockbrokers

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

Adventure, Danger, Dangerous, Make, Nobody, Trying

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.

Exercise, Mean, Think, Value, Vote, Workout

The bulk of my input comes from my peers.

Bulk, Input, Peers

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.

Amble, Firsts, Note, Notes, Sometimes, Walk

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