Shawn Amos Quotes

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

I was invited for the first Woodstock. Actually, I started the programme.

There is still nothing under the sun quite like a Grateful Dead concert.

I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people.

The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.

I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

It's a rule of 'Deadhead-dom' to claim to hate Donna Godchaux and always say, 'Phil makes the band,' though I think that pronouncement was proved inaccurate after Jerry died.

Man, I would have loved to have been fully cognisant of the power of Janis Joplin. I would have loved to have been part of the revolution.

A Grateful Dead concert is much more than the music: it's an experience, almost like being in a family of thousands of people.

I used to be into the Grateful Dead, so I understand the Phish thing.

I guess Zeppelin is some happy stuff compared to us. It's pretty hippy, too.

'Europe '72' came out right around the time that I started going to see the Dead, and it had a huge impression on me.

The Grateful Dead always had their iconography down pat.

Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.

I saw the Dead in '73 at Nassau Coliseum, and that same year, I saw them at the crazy, big Watkins Glen festival. It was just outrageous. It was amazing to see the reciprocity between them and their audience.

Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.

You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

I tend to be a jam-band fan, and I love the Rolling Stones.

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.

I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.

Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business.