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.
JERRY GARCIANobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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I 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.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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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 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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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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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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