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.
JERRY GARCIAYou need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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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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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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