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.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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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