And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
JERRY GARCIANobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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