Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
JERRY GARCIARun faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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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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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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