You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
JERRY GARCIAPlaying 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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