And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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