Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
JERRY GARCIAYou need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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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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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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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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