I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
JERRY GARCIAIt’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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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We’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.
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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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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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