It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
JERRY GARCIATo be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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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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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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