Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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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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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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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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