I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
JERRY GARCIAAnd there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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