We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
JERRY GARCIAAn organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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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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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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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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