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.
JERRY GARCIAListen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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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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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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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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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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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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