All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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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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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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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