It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
JERRY GARCIAAmerica is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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 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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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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