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.
JERRY GARCIAThe Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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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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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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