For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
JERRY GARCIAYou listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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