Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
JERRY GARCIAWhat we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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 would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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