I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
JERRY GARCIAThe nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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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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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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