I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
JERRY GARCIAListening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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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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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 mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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 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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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