Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
JERRY GARCIAPlaying in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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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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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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