We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
JERRY GARCIARun faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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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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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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