All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
JERRY GARCIAThe nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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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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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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