Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
JERRY GARCIASome things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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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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