Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
JERRY GARCIAWe didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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