To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
JERRY GARCIASomebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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