If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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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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