I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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