You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
JERRY GARCIAWe play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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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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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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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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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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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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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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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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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