Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
JERRY GARCIASomebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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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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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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