Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIAIf you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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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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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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