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.
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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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