I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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