The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
JERRY GARCIANobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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