And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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