Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
JERRY GARCIAAll I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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