Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIAWe’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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