So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
JERRY GARCIADone time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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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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