“Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!”

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

Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.

People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.

I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.

I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.

We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.

What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.

What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.

I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.

As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.

You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.

To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.

… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’

The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.

Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.

There’s nothing I’ve ever worked on that beat ‘Game of Thrones’ – that’s a 10-hour movie; they put a lot of money in it.

The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.

I’m always hungry. I want to be the best.

I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

Our best years are only ahead of us, so we got to continue to keep pushing.

The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.

Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.

From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.