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.
JERRY GARCIANobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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