For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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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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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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