The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
JERRY GARCIACats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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 know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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