I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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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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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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.
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