Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
JERRY GARCIA
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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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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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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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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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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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