Phil Lesh Quotes & Sayings

“There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.”

“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 in the education of children.”

“To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.”

“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 and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.”

“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 for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way.”

“When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.”

“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 sense that there weren't as many of those magical shows that were just magic all the way through as there had been in earlier years.”

“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 for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.”

“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, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.”

“Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.”