Crosses Quote by Phil Lesh

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 always had their iconography down pat.

— Lee Ranaldo

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

— Neil Innes

We played, jazz, blues, dixie, and it all came from the church. When I went to church, I would see the sisters and brothers…

— Scatman Crothers

We started to overthink things in the Dixie Chicks and do things we thought people wanted us to do.

— Martie Maguire

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

— Jon Fishman

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

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect…

— Alison Krauss

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

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

With Del Shannon - and I've got to tell you this - there's nobody probably on the face of the earth that I identified…

— Dion DiMucci

“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