Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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