“I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.” WallListeningGratefulMy SisterExposure Author:J.K. Simmons
“Let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen, to love with our whole hearts, even though there's no guarantee... to practice gratitude and joy in those moments of terror, to be this vulnerable means that we’re alive.” PeopleFeelsBelieveHeartMeanEnoughWholeMomentsJoyI BelievePracticeAliveListeningGratitudeGratefulTerrorVulnerableGuaranteesKinderSo GratefulI'm Alive Author:Brené Brown
“An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.” ImportantSongRealizingListeningGrewGrew UpGratefulMeetingsTransitionJamSimilarityDjs Author:Avey Tare
“I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that's what the Grateful Dead is all about.” GivingYearsBoysMaterialsListeningBandGive MeGratefulDecadesFantasticTeenagerShirtsCollectionsConcertsT ShirtLive Concerts Author:Bill Walton
“I grew up in San Francisco. My parents were not hippies; they were writers. They were very active politically, but on the intellectual side, not on the "taking drugs in a field and listening to the Grateful Dead" side.” ParentSidesFieldsListeningGrewDrugGrew UpIntellectualGratefulActiveSan FranciscoHippie Author:Winona Ryder
“I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place that when I was young, I was raised on "I Love Lucy" and listening to the Grateful Dead and reading Jack Kerouac. They, to me, were all symbols of this very foreign sense of promise and movement. After all this time here I'm glad I still have it.” StillsYoungReadingMovementListeningPromiseGratefulRaisedGladSymbolsCaliforniaGlamourRomanticismLucyForeign Places Author:Pico Iyer
“Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn't even talk about. We know it's there. The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially. We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that's what it's all about really. Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen - that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen. I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.” ThinkingRealAgeSpiritualLanguageReligiousExistenceListeningPoliticianMusic IsGratefulNew AgeGetting High Author:Jerry Garcia