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 GARCIAConstantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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.
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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.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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