When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So you've got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing.

What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.

In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.