You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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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 were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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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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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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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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