I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, thats really cool. You know, youre moving. Youre using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it. – Bill Kreutzmann
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. – Bill Kreutzmann
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 dont miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing. – Bill Kreutzmann
Im really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I dont think about it as being a leader. – Bill Kreutzmann
As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
The flowery Path of Poetry but ill accords with the thorny Mazes of the Law; in the one I have wandered with rapture from Infancy, and I have endeavoured to grace the other with a simple but lasting Ornament—Integrity of Heart. – Charles Snart, “Dedication, to Robert Lowe, Esq. Oxton,” 1807 January 1st, Newar