We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
JERRY GARCIA… 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.’
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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