I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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 listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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 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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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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