… 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.’
JERRY GARCIAWe’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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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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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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