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.
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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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 know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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… 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.’
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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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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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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