We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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