We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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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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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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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