You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
JERRY GARCIARun faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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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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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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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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