If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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We 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.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play 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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