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.
JERRY GARCIAIf you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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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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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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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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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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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