I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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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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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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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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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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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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