And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
JERRY GARCIAWe would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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 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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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 mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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