“The Grateful Dead had no mortality of its own it made no judgments took no positions it merely opened valves for music to pour through.” “I soon began to see dissonances caused by wrong notes or right notes in the wrong place as opportunities rather than liabilities new ways to create tension and release the lifeblood of music.” #PhilLesh ‘Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead’ Back Bay Books (2006)