The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
JERRY GARCIAI know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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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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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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For 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.
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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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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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