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.
JERRY GARCIAYou 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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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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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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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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