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.
JERRY GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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