I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
JERRY GARCIAYou ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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