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Quotes About Grateful Dead

I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
~ Bill Walton
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 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
I remember the last time the Grateful Dead played in Seattle, at the Seattle Center. I was living there, and after the show, I was walking to work near there, and I'd never seen so much debris. There were mountains of garbage.
~ Isaac Brock
Yeah, I miss the Grateful Dead. I miss that groove. I miss the brotherhood. Absolutely. There's no doubt about it.
~ Mickey Hart
For a while, I tried to masquerade as somewhat of a hippie because I was under the impression that was the kind of guy girls would like. I was pretty unsuccessful because I liked the idea of camping more than actually camping. I did go to a Grateful Dead concert, but I was pretty bored.
~ Paul Rudd
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
We profiled the Drug Policy Foundation, the most thoughtful advocacy group, financed by billionaire George Soros, and the Grateful Dead's foundation, among others.
~ Jann S. Wenner
Many of the ex-hippies who started companies like Apple, or the early online bulletin boards dedicated to organic food and following the Grateful Dead, were an odd combination of liberals and libertarians.
~ Glenn Kelman
The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.
~ Jon Fishman
When we learned to play in bands, what we were covering was equal part the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead. That would defy the logic that somehow these things don't fit in the same musical well.
~ Bryce Dessner
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
as if I'd said I wanted to sell cheese sandwiches outside Grateful Dead concerts...
~ Unknown
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