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.
JERRY GARCIAIf you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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 I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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