And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
JERRY GARCIAWhat 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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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 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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