If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
JERRY GARCIAGetting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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 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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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