Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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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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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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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 The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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