I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
JERRY GARCIAA simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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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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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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