As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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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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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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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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