What a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do 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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