The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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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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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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