I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
JERRY GARCIAThe nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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