The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
JERRY GARCIAI’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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