We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
JERRY GARCIAIn 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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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 read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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