Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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