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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead -
I find inspiration and rhythm in everything. Really I do. And I find inspiration in the really quiet moments.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead
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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 Grateful Dead -
And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead -
When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
I went to prep school for one year in Arizona. It was called Orme.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead -
And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
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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 Grateful Dead -
Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead -
Polyamory - that's where you're freely confessed that you have more than one lover at a time. And actually I'm less that way than I used to be, but I was trying to make people understand, that at least for some folks, this was a fairly natural state. And instead of skulking around about it that we'd all do better to avoid the deceit and be honest.
John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead -
But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead -
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead -
In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead -
Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead -
Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
Whatever I'm going to be doing, a lot of it will be furthering this heritage, this legacy.
Bob Weir Grateful Dead -
To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead -
Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
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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 Grateful Dead -
Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead -
Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead -
And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead