Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
JERRY GARCIATo 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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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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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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