I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
JERRY GARCIAThe thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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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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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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