Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIANow it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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