Quotes by Bill Kreutzmann - Page 1

I am just a guy who plays drums.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Guy
Play
I Am Who Just
Drums
Plays
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I love the farm, I love growing stuff.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Farms
Growing
Stuff
Farm
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No matter how nice a hotel is, it's not home.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Hotel
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It's not the same without Jerry. It never will be.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Jerry
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Maybe because I'm a Taurus, I like to watch plants grow.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Taurus
Watch
Maybe
Plants
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When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Decided
Died
Out Here
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Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Just One
Retire
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I went to prep school for one year in Arizona. It was called Orme.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Arizona
Prep
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I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't fun. It's just a whole different thing these days.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Different Thing
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When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Nervous
Thousands
Thousands Of People
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I mean, we just started, it's a new thing. We're doing this for fun and we're going to see where it goes.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Fun
Mean Girls
New Things
New Thing
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My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Dad
New Orleans
Play
Singers
Instrument
Orleans
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I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that much to me.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Meant
Drums
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I find inspiration and rhythm in everything. Really I do. And I find inspiration in the really quiet moments.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Inspiration
Quiet
Rhythm
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I didn't play after the Grateful Dead stopped playing. I didn't touch anything for three or four months, and I just got pretty crazy.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Grateful
Months
Touch
Stopped
Dead
Grateful Dead
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I've always loved New Orleans music. I always loved it when the Neville Brothers opened up for the Grateful Dead and the Dirty Dozen and all that.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Dirty
Dozen
Grateful
New Orleans
Music Always New
Brothers
Dead
Grateful Dead
Opened
Orleans
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I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Encouragement
Expectations
Fun
Play
Something New
Bar
Be Different
Small
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I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Thank You
Thankful
Being A Leader
Leader
People
Thinking
Years
Great Me People
Thank
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I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Morning
Decision
Scuba
Wake Up
Certified
Out Here
Wake
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I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Kids
Arms
Drummer
Fingers
Moving
Play
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I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that's what I'm going to do because that's the most fun thing that I know how to do.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Drums
Fun Thing
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I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Don't Care
Guy
Mean
Play
Posing
Backs
Guys
Look Me Care
Lay
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I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Travel
Body
Would Be
Drums
Dig
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In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Egos
Giant
Tight
Toward
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In the Woodstock movie, you see Justin, my son, who is now a filmmaker, being carried off by my wife at the time to the helicopter. He's just this little bundle of joy in her arms. And it's 1969.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Arms
Justin
Woodstock
Bundle
Carried
Helicopter
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I care about being able to play. If you're playing with integrity in the music, then that's what matters. But it wasn't that great for me because it was kinda like going back into the old times without the guy.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Integrity
Play
What Matters
Music Great Me
Matters
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I really like to go for the essence of things - the most beautiful parts of things - of human beings or of music. If there are things in there that are getting in the way and complicating it, it's just not good for me.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Essence
Good Music Beautiful
Most Beautiful
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At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Energy
Missing
People
Yeah
Miss
Business Side
Missed
Regular
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Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here because, you know, I played two feet from people all night. And after all those years, it's great to be able to talk to folks.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
All Night
Feet
Yeah
Great Music Me
Music Great Me
Oh Yeah
Play Music
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Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players.
Bill Kreutzmann / Drummer
Grateful
Honest Truth
Opening
Cover
Grateful Dead
Guitar Players
Steven
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