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.
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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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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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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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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