We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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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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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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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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