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.
JERRY GARCIAI know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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.
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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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