You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
JERRY GARCIAMusic is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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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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