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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 -
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead
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My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead -
Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead -
Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead -
The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead -
I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
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No matter how nice a hotel is, it's not home.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice.
Phil Lesh Grateful Dead -
The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead -
I've always loved New Orleans music. I always loved it when the Neville Brothers opened up for the Grateful Dead and the Dirty Dozen and all that.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead -
Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.
Bob Weir Grateful Dead
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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.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
I love the farm, I love growing stuff.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead -
The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.
John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead -
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.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
I don't believe in death.
Bob Weir Grateful Dead
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The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.
John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead -
I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that much to me.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.
John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead -
And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead