It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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… 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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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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