And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
JERRY GARCIAAnd 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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 think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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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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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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… 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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