I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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I 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.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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