What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
JERRY GARCIAEach person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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 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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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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