I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
JERRY GARCIAMusic 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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