I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
JERRY GARCIAWhat a long strange trip it’s been.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about 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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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