Jerry Garcia Quotes
33 Jerry Garcia quotes:
"Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us."
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"Well, you know Tom, I'm no health nut"
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"I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully."
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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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"Friend of the Devil."
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"I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project."
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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 ones who do what you do."
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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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"So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well."
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"Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does."
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"What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place."
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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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"But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you."
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"We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us."
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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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"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."
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"America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think."
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"And the live show is still our main thing."
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"And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up."
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"But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin."
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