Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
JERRY GARCIAThere’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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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 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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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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