What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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