I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
JERRY GARCIAThe thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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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 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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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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