Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIAThe implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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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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