Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
JERRY GARCIAI think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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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 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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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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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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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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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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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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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