We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
JERRY GARCIAThe pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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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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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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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 we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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