You can't just play the way The Grateful Dead plays without working at it. It's not something that is easy or just happened to us. There was a long, slow process that brought that into being.

A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.

I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.

You can't ride the rails anymore in this country, but you can follow the Grateful Dead.