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 GARCIAWe were just in line to see what was going to happen.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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