… 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.’
JERRY GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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.
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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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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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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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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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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