You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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