Grateful Dead Quotes
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When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.
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When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.
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The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.
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Let there be songs to fill the air.
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Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done.
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Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.
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If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
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My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
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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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I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.
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The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
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Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice.
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My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and a Gibson solid-body like an SG or a Les Paul. It contains all sounds of the basic classic rock n' roll guitars. It does what I want it to do.
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I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.
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I love the farm, I love growing stuff.
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I've always loved New Orleans music. I always loved it when the Neville Brothers opened up for the Grateful Dead and the Dirty Dozen and all that.
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Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells....By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane.
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Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.
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River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy, Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home, It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home
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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.
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I don't believe in death.
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No matter how nice a hotel is, it's not home.
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Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
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Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.