Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
JERRY GARCIAYou have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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.
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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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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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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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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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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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Getting 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.
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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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