Grateful Dead Quotes
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I'm still good for hitting the road. I'll be doing that a fair bit.
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I don't think I've ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, 'Bing!' I only recall that happening to me twice - once was with 'Terrapin' and the other was 'Wharf Rat.' I mean, that's twice in a lifetime of writing!
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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.
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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.
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I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.
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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.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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.
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When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.
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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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I don't believe in death.
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And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire.
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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.
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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.
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When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.
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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?
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Maybe because I'm a Taurus, I like to watch plants grow.
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Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.
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My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.
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Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.
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I didn't play after the Grateful Dead stopped playing. I didn't touch anything for three or four months, and I just got pretty crazy.
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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.