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.
JERRY GARCIAHow many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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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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