And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
JERRY GARCIAAs 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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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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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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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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.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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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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