Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
JERRY GARCIAWe’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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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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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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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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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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