Phil Lesh Quotes

Our show is about starting over.

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

Enough! We cannot live like this any longer. Everything must be done in a new way. We must reconsider our concepts, our approaches, our views of our past and our future…. It is simply impossible to live as we have lived before—intolerable, humiliating.

I believe that everything starts from scratch when changing a coach.

We've got to change the way we do things.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

Sometimes, in order to be successful, a business must reset.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

I really felt it was time for a new vision.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Change is such hard work.

The mandate given to me was one of change.

I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.

We have it within our power to begin the world over again.

We have shaken things up when necessary.

I also held that view for about 50 years, but lately I have been rethinking it and now believe I was wrong.

Reform comes in the wake of disaster.

We’ve already decided to change. The question is: In which direction do we change, and from where do we start?