I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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 think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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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.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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