I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
JERRY GARCIAMusic is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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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.
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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 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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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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