I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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 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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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