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 ea…

- Phil Lesh

... 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.…

- Phil Lesh

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…

- Phil Lesh

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

- Phil Lesh

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

- Phil Lesh

If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stan…

- Phil Lesh

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 …

- Phil Lesh

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…

- Phil Lesh

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

- Phil Lesh