There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
JERRY GARCIAIn 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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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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.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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