You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
JERRY GARCIAListening. 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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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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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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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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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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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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