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 GARCIAYou have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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