Latest Bill Walton Quotes from Interviews

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• I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that's what the Grateful Dead is all about.

  Bill Walton

  Teenager, Grateful, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When I'm at a show, I'm yelling and cheering. I'm with those guys [the Grateful Dead].

  Bill Walton

  Cheer, Grateful, Yelling

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.

  Bill Walton

  Growing Up, Grateful, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.

  Bill Walton

  Grateful, Concerts, Courses

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.

  Bill Walton

  Grateful

  Source: www.avclub.com

• [Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.

  Bill Walton

  Want, Music Is, Term

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I love to play music. I'm terrible at it, but I love learning about it .

  Bill Walton

  Play, Terrible

  Source: www.avclub.com

• My relationship, my friendships with Grateful Dead, has shaped me. Our house is a shrine to all our musical heroes.

  Bill Walton

  Hero, Grateful, House

  Source: www.avclub.com

• That's what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I'm selling hope and life and success and that's why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.

  Bill Walton

  Dream, Book, Grateful

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.

  Bill Walton

  Life Changing, Yesterday, Live In The Moment

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Grateful, Player

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there. The joy, the optimism, the teamwork, the experimentation, the exploration, the curiosity. No band has inspired more artwork, no band has inspired more books. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I'm involved in all of that stuff.

  Bill Walton

  Teamwork, Book, Grateful

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

  Bill Walton

  Summer, Grateful, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've got my iPod and I've got it on shuffle. If I'm not ready for one, I'll click to the next one. My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end.

  Bill Walton

  Children, Ipods, Wife

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It changes over the course of life, depending on how you're feeling. There's this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you're hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.

  Bill Walton

  Dream, Song, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

• [Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-'60s with the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.

  Bill Walton

  Song, Strong, Grateful

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.

  Bill Walton

  Inspire, Power Of Music, Values

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I live by the motto of "chase your dream, make your dream your job, make your job your life."

  Bill Walton

  Dream, Jobs, Motto

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.

  Bill Walton

  Book, Passion, Avid

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Music is my life. It's inseparable from anything else that I do.

  Bill Walton

  Music Is My Life, Music Is, Inseparable

  Source: www.avclub.com

• We grew up without a television, so we constantly had music playing in our house.

  Bill Walton

  House, Television, Grew Up

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.

  Bill Walton

  Dad, Sight, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

  Bill Walton

  Powerful, Successful, Love Is

  Source: www.theruggedmale.com

• If you're living for today, if you're only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn't work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you're on your way.

  Bill Walton

  Dream, Yesterday, Live For Today

  Source: blitzweekly.com

• When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.

  Bill Walton

  Talking, Finding Yourself, Never Forget

  Source: www.theruggedmale.com