I used to be into the Grateful Dead, so I understand the…

“When a man has seen so many dead he cannot understand any longer why there should be so much anguish over a single individual.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

I want to prove that Holst's 'The Planets' can be as much of a sensory overload as a concert by the Grateful Dead, and…

— Charles Hazlewood

The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over from the…

— Todd Rundgren

The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.

— Bob Weir

When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.

— Mickey Hart

The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.

— Ken Kesey

I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow…

— Bill Walton

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

— Demetri Martin

When we learned to play in bands, what we were covering was equal part the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead. That would defy…

— Bryce Dessner

“Eventually they [Sarunas Marciulionis and Don Nelson] got a call from a representative of the Grateful Dead, whose members had been inspired by Lithuania's…

— Jack McCallum

I remember the last time the Grateful Dead played in Seattle, at the Seattle Center. I was living there, and after the show, I…

— Isaac Brock

“generally, when you do something for an audience, they repay you. The Grateful Dead made plenty of money. Tom Peters makes many millions of…

— Mitch Joel

“Grateful Dead performances were by design not consciously planned, often reaching their artistic peak when the collective stumbled upon something stunning, when "the music…

— Steven Gimbel

“Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.”

— Anonymous

“And a ride in a hearse tells us we’re all close to that final cruise . . . when the body dies and we…

— David Mutti Clark