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 GARCIAThe pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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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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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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