Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
JERRY GARCIAWe didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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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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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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