The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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