I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
JERRY GARCIATo be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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