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 GARCIARun faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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