Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
JERRY GARCIASo every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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 read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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