Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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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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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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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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