If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
JERRY GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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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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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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