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I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't fun. It's just a whole different thing these days.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
What I like best about music is when time goes away.
Bob Weir Grateful Dead
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I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead -
Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead -
We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead -
I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted, that it's incumbent not to think about giving something back.
Bob Weir Grateful Dead -
I'm still good for hitting the road. I'll be doing that a fair bit.
Bob Weir Grateful Dead -
So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring recordings of various music that was being recorded over there.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
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I am just a guy who plays drums.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
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.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead -
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead -
In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
Let there be songs to fill the air.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
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Maybe because I'm a Taurus, I like to watch plants grow.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead -
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?
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead -
When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
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My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and a Gibson solid-body like an SG or a Les Paul. It contains all sounds of the basic classic rock n' roll guitars. It does what I want it to do.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead -
One man gathers what another man spills
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead -
If you want to promote anything, all the work that you put into it is basically promoting the idea of it so that people will go for it. And if they don't go for it, you can't institute it. You can't do it.
Bob Weir Grateful Dead -
I really like to go for the essence of things - the most beautiful parts of things - of human beings or of music. If there are things in there that are getting in the way and complicating it, it's just not good for me.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead