Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
JERRY GARCIAWhat a long strange trip it’s been.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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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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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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