I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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?’
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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