We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIAEverything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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