What a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIASome things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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 dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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 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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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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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