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.
JERRY GARCIAIf we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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… 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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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