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 GARCIAIf 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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 think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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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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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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