Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
JERRY GARCIAIf the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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