All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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