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.
JERRY GARCIAMusic is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get 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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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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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Playing 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.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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