I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
JERRY GARCIAI think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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