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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More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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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’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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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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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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