… 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.’
JERRY GARCIAI don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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Music 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.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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