And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
JERRY GARCIAI think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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