We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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