I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
JERRY GARCIAI think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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