I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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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 you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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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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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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