I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
JERRY GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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