We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
JERRY GARCIAThe Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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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 were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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