To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
JERRY GARCIAMusic 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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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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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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