Grateful Dead Quotes

“The idea was to make the music an adventure, and that’s what we did.”

“We're in the transportation business. We transport people from one state to another.”

“The Grateful Dead was a real magical, mystical journey. We were on the frontier of something.”

“Our audience is like people who like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.”

“We weren't a pop band. We were a folk-music band on acid.”

“Jerry [Garcia] was the sun, and we were the planets revolving around him.”

“I don't think we ever tried to be a message band. We were storytellers.”