And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
JERRY GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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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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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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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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