Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
JERRY GARCIAWe have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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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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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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