In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
JERRY GARCIAIf you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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