All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
JERRY GARCIAHow many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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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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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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