Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
JERRY GARCIAPartly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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.
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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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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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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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