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.
JERRY GARCIAWe’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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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