I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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 can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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