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.

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

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

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.

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

Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.