If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
JERRY GARCIAThe Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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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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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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