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.
JERRY GARCIAIf the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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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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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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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