Quote of the Day

[SunshineSue]

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

--Ronnie Wood

[SunshineSue]

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

--Jack Kerouac

[SunshineSue]

The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.

--Ringo Starr

[SunshineSue]

Sometimes it happens onstage, or sometimes in rehearsal, but it always leaves me breathless and wonder-struck: The music is still there, waiting for us to approach, to open ourselves, to let it pass through us.

--Phil Lesh

[SunshineSue]

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely. There are no rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

--Hunter S. Thompson

[strangerinboulder]

You’re not as young as you used to be.
But…
You’re not as old as you’re going to be.
So watch it!

...Irish proverb

And may we all stay forever young kids

[SunshineSue]

We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see what these guys do.' They take one chord, the tonic chord, and just play all over it. 'We can do that too!' I wanted to make our music something really amazing - I wanted it to be jaw-dropping and turn on a dime and do all of those things that I knew music could do, and nobody told us we couldn't do it. I shouldn't say 'I,' though - Jerry Garcia was behind it the whole way.

--Phil Lesh

[SunshineSue]

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

--Robin Williams

[SunshineSue]

People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I came back.

--Bruce Hornsby

[SunshineSue]

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

--Ken Kesey