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.
JERRY GARCIAWhistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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