... 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

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

... Everything we (the Grateful Dead) ever did was a demonstration of the value of cross-fertilization, It was unconscious at first, but when we star…

- Phil Lesh

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

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

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

- 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

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

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