The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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 have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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We 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.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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