Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
JERRY GARCIAAnd 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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Sometimes 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.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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