Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.

With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

... Grateful Dead - that's it !! ... nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn't like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, 'Yeah, that's great.' It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It's just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don't like it.