I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
JERRY GARCIAConstantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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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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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 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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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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