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.
JERRY GARCIAThe nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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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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