I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
JERRY GARCIAThere’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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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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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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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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