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?’
JERRY GARCIACats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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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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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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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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The 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.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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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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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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