Jerry Garcia Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.”
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“We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.”
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“There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone”
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“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
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“We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.”
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“The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.”
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“If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.”
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“You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.”
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“You 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.”
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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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“Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it's Alright”
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“What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.”
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“I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.”
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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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“And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.”
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“So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.”
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“And the live show is still our main thing.”
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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 mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. 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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“I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.”
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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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“And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.”
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“Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it.”
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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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“It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.”
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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 much too late to do anything about rock & roll now ...”
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“Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.”
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“To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.”
-- Jerry Garcia
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