For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
JERRY GARCIAWhat a long strange trip it’s been.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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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 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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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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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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 know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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