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.
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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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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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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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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