As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
JERRY GARCIAWhat we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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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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