The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
JERRY GARCIAI think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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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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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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