I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
JERRY GARCIAPlaying in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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 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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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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