The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
JERRY GARCIAThe thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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 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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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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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 result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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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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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