A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
JERRY GARCIALive life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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 context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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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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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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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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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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 implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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