We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
JERRY GARCIAIn 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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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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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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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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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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