Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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.
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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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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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