The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
JERRY GARCIAThe dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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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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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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