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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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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 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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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