What a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIAAnd there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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 equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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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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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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