Jerry Garcia quotes

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. (Jerry Garcia)
I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves. View quote
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I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like. View quote
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think. View quote
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What a long strange trip it's been. View quote
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The sun will shine in my back door one day.. View quote
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat. I know what I'm askin'. I know it's a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not. View quote
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. View quote
Jerry Garcia
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. View quote
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Nothing left to do but smile. View quote
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If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will. (Jerry Garcia)
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die. View quote
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Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does. View quote
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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. View quote
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We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice. View quote
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The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things. View quote
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Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right. View quote
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Somebody Has To Do Something. . . It Seems Pathetic That It Has To Be Us. (Jerry Garcia)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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