Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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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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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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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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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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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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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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