… 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.’
JERRY GARCIAThere’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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 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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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