You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
JERRY GARCIAIf we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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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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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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