Phil Lesh Quotes

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• There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.
• 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…
• If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands…
• 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,…
• To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• ... Everything we (the Grateful Dead) ever did was a demonstration of the value of cross-fertilization, It was unconscious at first, but when we started…
• ... We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see what…
• Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.
• I mean, sports are big, big, big business.
• And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor.
• 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…
• Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice.
• 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…
• Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and…
• But we were really locked in to that kind of format, and as the '90s wore on, it became for me more solidified, in that…
• 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…
• 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…

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