It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
JERRY GARCIAHunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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