Phil Lesh Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.”

“And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor.”

“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.”

“Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.”

“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 other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.”

“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 when we came back it would have been very different.”

“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 they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in.”

“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 that's very important.”