I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
JERRY GARCIAI Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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 dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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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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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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