And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
JERRY GARCIA… 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.’
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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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 mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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