If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
JERRY GARCIASo every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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