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"The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player."
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"Be a critical thinker too sometimes. Look in to your heart and give your self permission to ask your mind and question the teachings that doesn't resonate with the wisdom of your soul."

"Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important."

"The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen."
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"I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful."

"A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist."

"There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves."

"The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that."

"If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs."

"I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too."

"I like to be sort of grounded with Fish. But, at the same time, I think probably what's unique about us is the way other dynamics happen, where I'll play off Trey for awhile. When we start playing a jam, I don't usually know what's going to happen, I don't have a plan."

"I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme."

"I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for."

"I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him."
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