The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
JERRY GARCIAYou ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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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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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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