All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
JERRY GARCIAAll I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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