How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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