I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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