We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
JERRY GARCIACats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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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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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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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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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