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.
JERRY GARCIAIf something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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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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.
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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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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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