Crowds Quote by Jerry Garcia

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.

— Neil Innes

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

— Jon Fishman

The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we…

— Mickey Hart

The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.

— Robert Bly

The Grateful Dead always had their iconography down pat.

— Lee Ranaldo

The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.

— Mark Kurlansky

I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.

— Jerry Garcia

... Everything we (the Grateful Dead) ever did was a demonstration of the value of cross-fertilization, It was unconscious at first, but when we…

— Phil Lesh

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

— Mickey Hart

We didn't invent music, so it's been here for a reason, and it has powers for a reason. So we should pay attention to…

— Chuck D

We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!

— will.i.am

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.

— William McDonough