Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never would have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do.

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.