A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
JERRY GARCIAMusic 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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