What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
JERRY GARCIAAnd for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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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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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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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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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