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.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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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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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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