Phil Lesh Quotes

• 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.

  Phil Lesh

  Song, Blessing, Profound

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• If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner.

  Phil Lesh

  Real, Consciousness, Moments

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• 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.

  Phil Lesh

  Art, Children, Humble

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• ... 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

  Music, Grateful, Different

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• ... We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see what these guys do.' They take one chord, the tonic chord, and just play all over it. 'We can do that too!' I wanted to make our music something really amazing - I wanted it to be jaw-dropping and turn on a dime and do all of those things that I knew music could do, and nobody told us we couldn't do it. I shouldn't say 'I,' though - Jerry Garcia was behind it the whole way.

  Phil Lesh

  Music, Play, Guy

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• 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.

  Phil Lesh

  Hurt, People, Fans

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• To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.

  Phil Lesh

  Simple, Enlightening, Rounds

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• The decision to change the name meant we were getting serious, because we couldn't make a record if some other band had the same name as us.
  I told the boys I was in a record store, thumbing though 45s, and I'd seen a record with the name the Warlocks on it. I've often wondered whether I hallucinated it, because I never saw the record again and I never heard a word about any band called the Warlocks.

  Phil Lesh

  Boys, Names, Decision

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

  Phil Lesh

  Running, Encouragement

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• 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.

  Phil Lesh

  Anniversary, Drama, School

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• So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring recordings of various music that was being recorded over there.

  Phil Lesh

  Opportunity, Foundation, Events

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• I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

  Phil Lesh

  Sports, Mean, Bigs

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• Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

  Phil Lesh

  Grateful, Player, Guitar

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