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.
JERRY GARCIAThere’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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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