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.
JERRY GARCIAAnd when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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