The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
JERRY GARCIAWe’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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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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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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