You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
JERRY GARCIAPlaying in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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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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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 like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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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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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’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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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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