Another loyal Dead Head fan has passed. The Grateful Dead provided a universe, a place of association and individual passion by many, as in the case of the late follower, Richard Blood, who passed away 9-14-09.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

I've always been really fond — in folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about the characters, you don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something important. I love that. I'm really a sucker for that kind of song.

We are all bozos on the same bus

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

I think basically the Grateful Dead is not for cranking out rock and roll, it's not for going out and doing concerts or any of that stuff. I think it's to get high. To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe. And I think every human being should be a conscious tool of the universe.

We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!