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.
JERRY GARCIAI equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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