Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIAYou listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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I 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.
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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.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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