I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
JERRY GARCIATruth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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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.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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