It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
JERRY GARCIAListening. 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.
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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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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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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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.
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