A biography for Bill Kreutzmannhasn’t been written yet.
“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?”
“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.”
“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.”
“I went to prep school for one year in Arizona. It was called Orme.”
“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.”
“I am just a guy who plays drums.”
“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.”
“It's not the same without Jerry. It never will be.”
“When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.”
“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.”