I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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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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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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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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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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