Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIANow 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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