Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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