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.
JERRY GARCIAGetting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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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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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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