The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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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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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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