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 GARCIAGetting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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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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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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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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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