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 GARCIAThe satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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 listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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