All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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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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… 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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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What 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.
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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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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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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