I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
JERRY GARCIAWe play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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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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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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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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