You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
JERRY GARCIAPartly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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 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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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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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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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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