What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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