I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
JERRY GARCIAIn 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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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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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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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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