In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
JERRY GARCIAThe thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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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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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… 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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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Hunter 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.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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