I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
JERRY GARCIAIt turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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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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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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