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Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool…

— Roger Glover

It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

— Alan Greenspan

Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important…

— Trey Anastasio

You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.

— John Mellencamp

The loss of Jerry Garcia feels like the end of an era in the same way it felt when Elvis died and John Lennon…

— Lyle Lovett

Jerry [Garcia] got high and Jerry's dead. I went hunting and I'm still Ted.

— Ted Nugent

Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president.

— Grace Slick

I wouldn’t wear a tie-dyed tee-shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.

— Kurt Cobain

... We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see…

— Phil Lesh

Duane Allman didn't see himself as the bandleader .. he led by example, and you gained a lot of respect from Duane if you…

— Richard Betts

'Entertainment Tonight' would send me out to do interviews with musicians like Sting and Coldplay, and I was able to watch how they plan…

— John Tesh

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The…

— Michael Bamberger