You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
JERRY GARCIASometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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