We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
JERRY GARCIAThe context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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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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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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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.
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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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