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.
JERRY GARCIAAnd as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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 think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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