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 GARCIAI mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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… 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.’
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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 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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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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.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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