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Jerry Garcia

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.
JERRY GARCIA

Danger Guitar Important Love Most Music Play Thing
So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
JERRY GARCIA

City Come Every Government Idea Once Plumb Way
If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
JERRY GARCIA

Dialect Language Music Powerful Some Think Universal Very
I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
JERRY GARCIA

Adventurous Cause Country Danger Illusion Kind Law Lose Order Some Spirit Substitute Think
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
JERRY GARCIA

Evil Lesser Pick Still Two
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Blue Certainty Country Kind Like Link Music Only Play Purist Stuff
If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
JERRY GARCIA

Go Immediately Obvious Something Work
I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
JERRY GARCIA

Anywhere Different Effort Guitar Just Lead See Try
What a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIA

Beem Long Strange Trip
Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
JERRY GARCIA

Adventure Enlarge Everybody Live Need Something
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
JERRY GARCIA

Best Consider Do Merely One Only
… 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.’
JERRY GARCIA

Around Band Candidate Dead Everyone Grateful Great Like New Nobody Our Say
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Ball Character Need Nerve Quality Real Society Whatever
I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
JERRY GARCIA

Action Else Everybody Get Matter Mop Music Over Revolution Think
And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
JERRY GARCIA

Lifetime Material More Still Twenty Use
Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
JERRY GARCIA

Listen River Rock Sing Song Soul Sweet

Nothing left to do but smile.

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