What a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIAI like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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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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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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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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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 turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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