The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
JERRY GARCIARight now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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 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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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