Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
JERRY GARCIADone time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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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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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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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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