I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
JERRY GARCIAI think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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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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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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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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