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.
JERRY GARCIAI’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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