If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
JERRY GARCIACats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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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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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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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