I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIABlah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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