We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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 didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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