Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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I 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.
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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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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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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.
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