It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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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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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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