You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
JERRY GARCIAThe thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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