I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
JERRY GARCIAWhat a long strange trip it’s been.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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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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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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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