America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking 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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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 don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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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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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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