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I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed. -- David Boreanaz
I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album. -- Denis Leary
Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing. -- Phil Lesh
When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet. -- Mickey Hart
I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands. -- Jon Fishman
The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence. -- Jon Fishman
We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on. -- Neil Innes
Yeah, I miss the Grateful Dead. I miss that groove. I miss the brotherhood. Absolutely. There's no doubt about it. -- Mickey Hart
When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design. -- Mickey Hart
I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project. -- Jerry Garcia
A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead. -- Shawn Amos
I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead. -- Demetri Martin
The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to. -- Ken Kesey
I want to prove that Holst's 'The Planets' can be as much of a sensory overload as a concert by the Grateful Dead, and just as exciting. -- Charles Hazlewood
Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don't have a lot of those bands anymore. -- Sheila E.
The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over from the formality of a concert into more of a lifestyle thing. -- Todd Rundgren
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. -- Phil Lesh
There were many times during our career when he could've quit and done something else. But he knew that his power was with the Grateful Dead. He didn't want to go solo. Jerry was a groupist. He loved to group. -- Mickey Hart
The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world. -- Bill Walton
The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So you've got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing. -- Mickey Hart
But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin. -- Jerry Garcia
I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence. -- Mike Gordon
Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players. -- Bill Kreutzmann
Entertainment Tonight' would send me out to do interviews with musicians like Sting and Coldplay, and I was able to watch how they plan their shows. The late Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead always had a game plan, but he also was flexible if he had to change something at the last minute. -- John Tesh
My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl. -- Talib Kweli
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The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive. -- Ken Kesey
Pigpen was and is now forever one of the Grateful Dead. -- Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president. -- Grace Slick
The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check. -- Bob Weir
I'm not good at being lionized, and when I'm in 'Grateful Dead'-type situations, that happens. -- Robert Hunter
When I'm at a show, I'm yelling and cheering. I'm with those guys [the Grateful Dead]. -- Bill Walton
I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love. -- Bill Walton
During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to. -- Bill Walton
My relationship, my friendships with Grateful Dead, has shaped me. Our house is a shrine to all our musical heroes. -- Bill Walton
I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large. -- Jerry Garcia
We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen. -- Jerry Garcia
I've always loved New Orleans music. I always loved it when the Neville Brothers opened up for the Grateful Dead and the Dirty Dozen and all that. -- Bill Kreutzmann
Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history, -- Trey Anastasio
I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them. -- J. K. Simmons
I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time. -- Bill Walton
When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia (former Grateful Dead guitarist) destroyed his life on drugs. And yet hes being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks. -- Rush Limbaugh
I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special. -- Bill Walton
I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead. -- Bill Walton
Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care. -- Jennifer Weiner
An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song. -- Avey Tare
... Everything we (the Grateful Dead) ever did was a demonstration of the value of cross-fertilization, It was unconscious at first, but when we started looking at each other, we had all these different influences... Bobby Weir used to call it electric Dixieland. -- Phil Lesh
Make no mistake about it: Legalization is not about, you know, Cheech & Chong smoking marijuana or, you know, a Grateful Dead concert; it's about creating the next Marlboro of our time, the next Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, the Big Tobacco all over again. -- Kevin Sabet
I think most people's record collections are more interesting than radio generally gives them credit for. You're likely to be as interested in the Grateful Dead as Palestrina. It pisses me off how compartmentalised music is. I used to be in a punk band, you know? -- Charles Hazlewood
The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So youve got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing. -- Mickey Hart
... We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus! ... -- Brad Paisley
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy. -- Maeve Binchy

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