Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
JERRY GARCIAWe didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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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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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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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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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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