I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
JERRY GARCIAYou can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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