We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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 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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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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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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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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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’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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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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