Phil Lesh Quotes

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

Phil Lesh

#2. Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him - I'm Nathan Lane?

Nathan Lane

#3. As soon as I read the script for Hannah Montana, I knew it kinda related to me. I wanted to disguise myself as not some celebrity's daughter, just be me and find people that like me for me.

Miley Cyrus

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial.

Isaac Asimov

#8. We aren't who our pasts say we are. Damage doesn't define us. WE DEFINE OURSELVES.

Cynthia Eden

#9. Let's give it up for the Secret Service. I don't want to be too hard on those guys. You know, because they're the only law enforcement agency that will get in trouble if a black man gets shot.

Cecily Strong

#10. 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

#11. To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.

Phil Lesh

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Phil Lesh

#15. It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office - any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.

Theodore Roosevelt

#16. 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

#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. Eat and sleep well. Be Positive and get rid of the Negative in Your Life.

Margaret Aranda

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. It seems that in our society Christianity has made permanent inroads in the eye-for-an-eye department but has made little progress on the practical application of forgiveness.

Steve Toltz

#22. 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

#23. Death does not scare me, for when it takes me, my existence is over. What terrifies me is what I will become on my way to death.

Elora Mitchell

#24. The supernatural world was like an onion. You peel back the layers, only to find more layers, on and on, hopelessly trying to reach the mysterious core. Then you start crying.

Carrie Vaughn

#25. 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

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

Phil Lesh

#27. 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

#28. Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice.

Phil Lesh

#29. 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

#30. He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

Oscar Wilde

#31. 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

#32. At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.

Julianne Moore

#33. When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.

Phil Lesh

#34. And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor.

Phil Lesh

#35. I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I'd rather deal with restrictions of budget. It's better to feel free within any budget.

Guillermo Del Toro

#36. She had one of those tender complexions that after a good cry get all blurred and inflamed, and morbidly alluring

Vladimir Nabokov

#37. 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

#38. The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.

Robert Koch