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.
JERRY GARCIAI like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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 pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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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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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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