What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
JERRY GARCIAI know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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