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.
JERRY GARCIAYou ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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 equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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