Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
JERRY GARCIAFor 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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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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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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 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.
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