What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
JERRY GARCIAListening. 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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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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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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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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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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