The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
JERRY GARCIAWe were just in line to see what was going to happen.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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