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.
JERRY GARCIAYou can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Playing 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.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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