There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
JERRY GARCIAI’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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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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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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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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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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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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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.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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