The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
JERRY GARCIAWe need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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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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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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