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.
JERRY GARCIAIf you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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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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