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.
JERRY GARCIAIn 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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