What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
JERRY GARCIAYou can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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 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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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