Top 34 Lesh Quotes
#1. They were a tangle of limbs on the bed, limbs and f lesh and bodies entwined so fully, joined so deeply, that it was as if they were sealed together. The heat had melted and merged them. They weren't even human now, but sex in its rawest, purest form.
Anonymous
#2. And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different.
Phil Lesh
#3. 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
#4. But we were really locked in to that kind of format, and as the '90s wore on, it became for me more solidified, in that sense that there weren't as many of those magical shows that were just magic all the way through as there had been in earlier years.
Phil Lesh
#5. 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
#6. Normal" is all about perception. I mean, isn't "normal" what the majority of people do?
Margaret Lesh
#7. Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.
Phil Lesh
#8. There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.
Phil Lesh
#9. 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
#10. To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.
Phil Lesh
#11. Everyone has played video games at some point these days, and video games are fun.
PewDiePie
#12. Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.
Phil Lesh
#13. I've learned that I don't have to live in sadness - there's not some cruel requirement that I should feel guilty about being happy.
Margaret Lesh
#14. 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
#15. When you reach the mountaintop look up
and think of how high you must leap to reach the stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#16. Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#17. 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
#18. Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important.
Phil Lesh
#19. 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
#20. Those companies that don't see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money and growth. When baseball, football and basketball couldn't see the field, they missed talent and growth. The same is true in the tech industry.
Jesse Jackson
#21. Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.
Marcus Garvey
#22. And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor.
Phil Lesh
#23. Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers; but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.
Margaret Atwood
#24. When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.
Phil Lesh
#25. I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.
Vivienne Westwood
#26. And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.
Phil Lesh
#27. 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
#28. Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.
Phil Lesh
#29. Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice.
Phil Lesh
#30. Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.
Phil Lesh
#31. I mean, sports are big, big, big business.
Phil Lesh
#32. Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in.
Phil Lesh
#33. 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
#34. Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's.
M. Leighton
