A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
JERRY GARCIAWe’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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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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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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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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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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