Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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Music 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.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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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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