I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
JERRY GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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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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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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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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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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