I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
JERRY GARCIAI know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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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 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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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 have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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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