And 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.
JERRY GARCIAAmerica is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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