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.
JERRY GARCIAWhat is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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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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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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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