I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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 are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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 mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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