We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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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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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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