Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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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 have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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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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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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