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.
JERRY GARCIAIn this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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 mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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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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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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