An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
JERRY GARCIAIf you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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.
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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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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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 me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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