Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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