If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
JERRY GARCIAIn 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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