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.
JERRY GARCIAAnd 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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