I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
JERRY GARCIAIf you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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 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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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 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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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