Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
JERRY GARCIAIt 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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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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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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