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.
JERRY GARCIAIf you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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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 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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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