Too much of a good thing is just about right
JERRY GARCIA
JERRY GARCIA
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The 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.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia 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?
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia 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.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia
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