To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
JERRY GARCIAFor 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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 didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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