Favorite Quotes by or about Phil
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"...when it's really happening, I'm not there at all. This is the truth; I am not there at all. Nobody else is either. There are no humans on that stage; there is only music. In that zone, it's very wide and deep. You might almost say its infinite. You can see forever in there and the difficulty is to keep yourself anchored in some way, or at least floating in the same space, so you just don't drift off into the infinite.
Somewhere in the back of that group mind there are these little notes of etheric awareness: "oh, over here is my body, which is a component of this," you know? It's really quite wonderful to be in that space. And it's a little bit addictive."
-Phil Lesh
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It's not a matter of letting
It's not a matter of letting me sing...its a matter of making me..."
-5-11-86 frost
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"A bullshit lie"
"A bullshit lie"
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If Shakin' said that first
If Shakin' said that first quote, he'd take so much shit over it:)
"Keep it comin', folks. Keep it comin'."
"Hiya, kids!"
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The Barbary Coast 1906 the
The Barbary Coast 1906 the wickedest place in the world...Nothing but sin and no salvation arghh arghh whoo whoo Lot's of fun...eh? Yeah San Francisco, The Pearl of the Pacific. The jewel of the ring of fire. Hangin' out and havin' fun....Until!....Until I say...I say I say until that one fateful day....whoooo. San Francisco in ruins.
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"I’ve seen Phil Lesh do
"I’ve seen Phil Lesh do musical things that were tantamount, in my opinion, to a pagan ritual in which you literally saw an apparition. I’ve seen him do that musically. I have seen him destroy reality and look at me as if to say, “I’ve just destroyed reality.” I’ve seen it, and a lot of people who listen to his music or that kind of music understand that side is possible. So because I don’t know a lot of scales and I have my own version of that, I want to figure out how to do that with songwriting."
Ryan Adams
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'Phil has a theory that
'Phil has a theory that musicians don't actually ply music, but get into the right psychic space where they bend vibrational energy...It's an extreme theory.'
I'm paraphrasing this from memory. Warren said it in an interview for Relix that appeared in '03 during the last Q shows at the Beacon.
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'03 during the last Q shows
'03 during the last Q shows at the Beacon:
"Boooooo..."
-Bucky
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"Fuck you pay me"
"Fuck you pay me"
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Dave Schools (interviewing
Dave Schools (interviewing Phil):
Was there every truly a bandleader with the Grateful Dead?
Lesh:
Well, yes and no. The major factor with the Grateful Dead doing what they did and what we’re trying to do still is the Group Mind. Where nobody’s really there, there’s only the music. It’s not as if we’re playing the music… the music is playing us. And that requires a certain amount of ego loss for everyone, so that, onstage, in the moment and in the music, there’s no leader. There aren’t even any musicians, ideally.
https://www.relix.com/articles/detail/dave-schools-interviews-phil-lesh-...
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"When Phil's happening, the
Cool thread topic, I'll add this classic:
"When Phil's happening, the band's happening"
-Jerry Garcia
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Red Rocks '06 (I think that
Red Rocks '06 (I think that was the year w/Ryan Adams):
Before donor rap Phil takes a big whiff and says, "Ah, HOMEGROWN!!" ....and "I love it" or something along that line.
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"... If you've got the stones
"... If you've got the stones..."
Phil calling out a zoner.
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Beacon during the Q days...
Beacon during the Q days..."why are New York City shows like a good fuck...because of all the love"
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Here is a bunch of them...
Here is a bunch of them...
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/phil_lesh.html
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"Porcupines have to make love
"Porcupines have to make love very carefully, well, think of rhinoceroses"
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Jerry Garcia would have
Jerry Garcia would have turned 74 on August 1st. Do you have a favorite memory of him?
"It's the three of us – me, Bob [Weir] and Jerry in the Los Trancos Woods near Palo Alto in the summer of 1965. We'd wander around – you can imagine the state we were in – and I ran with Bob into some gully. We'd hang out there, looking at the trees. We came back up the road, and there's Jerry scuttling across the field, kind of like a badger, a three-toed sloth, on all fours. He's scurrying across, and he's moving fast. Then he sees us, and he gets this sheepish grin on his face. And he flops on his back."
With his legs in the air?
"Yeah, literally [laughs]."
Do you still feel Jerry's presence in the music when you perform Dead songs?
"Sometimes very intensely, sometimes not at all. At the same time, you have to feel like he is the song. When you're in the song, you're with Jerry. It was very palpable the other night. We did "Mission in the Rain." I actually saw him and [lyricist Robert] Hunter, walking along the Mission District. That was the image in my mind."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-last-word-phil-lesh-on-je...
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Great thread.
Great thread.
"The Barbary Coast 1906 the wickedest place in the world...Nothing but sin and no salvation arghh arghh whoo whoo Lot's of fun...eh? Yeah San Francisco, The Pearl of the Pacific. The jewel of the ring of fire. Hangin' out and havin' fun....Until!....Until I say...I say I say until that one fateful day....whoooo. San Francisco in ruins.
Mike posted this ~ it was a crazy, special Phil moment.
Here's a moment:
https://youtu.be/jxKdYS90qIA
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"Has anyone here seen Weir?"
"Has anyone here seen Weir?"
Trying to start the second set, HJ Kaiser, 12-27-86
(mainly because this thread needed to be bumped).
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“Achingly nostalgic, ‘Days
“Achingly nostalgic, ‘Days Between’ evokes the past. The music climbs laboriously out of shadows, growing and peaking with each verse, only to fall back each time in hopeless resignation. When Jerry sings the line ‘when all we ever wanted / was to learn and love and grow’ or ‘gave the best we had to give / how much we’ll never know,’ I am immediately transported decades back in time, to a beautiful spring morning with Jerry, Hunter, Barbara Meier, and Alan Trist—all of us goofing on the sheer exhilaration of being alive. I don’t know whether to weep with joy at the beauty of the vision or with sadness at the impassable chasm of time between the golden past and the often painful present.”
-Phil
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That one always gives me
That one always gives me chicken skin.
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"Turn to the person you love,
"Turn to the person you love, and who loves you, and say, Hey! I wanna be an organ donor!!"
PCL
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Jerry talking about throwing
Jerry talking about throwing Phil down a flight of stairs after a show at the Carousel Ballroom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxKdYS90qIA
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"I'll have the salmon please.
"I'll have the salmon please."
-Phil Lesh
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"Citizens of Boise surrender,
"Citizens of Boise submit, you are a conquered people"
https://archive.org/details/gd83-09-02.sbd.unk.2174.sbeok.shnf