Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
JERRY GARCIAHunter 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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… 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.’
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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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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