If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
JERRY GARCIA
Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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