--- title: "10 Music is Quotes By Jerry Garcia" description: "10 Music is quotes by Jerry Garcia. Plus more from Jerry Garcia and more Music is sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/687/jerry-garcia-2346_inspirational_magic-is-what-we-do-music-is-how-we-do-i_491345.jpg" --- > [Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/magic-is-what-we-do-music-is-how-we-do-it/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/687/jerry-garcia-2346_inspirational_magic-is-what-we-do-music-is-how-we-do-i_491345.jpg) > [Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/listening-that-s-what-music-is-about-you-hear-it-and-i-d-listen-to-it/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d78/jerry-garcia-2346_listen_listening-that-s-what-music-is-about-you_556500.jpg) > [Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/music-is-more-objective-i-think-than-a-lot-of-art-is-but-a-surprising/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/489/jerry-garcia-2346_amount_music-is-more-objective-i-think-than-a-l_927021.jpg) > [For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/for-me-i-think-the-only-danger-is-being-too-much-in-love-with-guitar/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e2/jerry-garcia-2346_danger_for-me-i-think-the-only-danger-is-being_2721231.jpg) > [You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/you-need-music-i-don-t-know-why-it-s-probably-one-of-those-joe/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6d/jerry-garcia-2346_bliss_you-need-music-i-don-t-know-why-it-s-pro_1497722.jpg) > [You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/you-listen-to-a-politician-making-a-speech-and-it-is-like-hearing/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/904/jerry-garcia-2346_communication_you-listen-to-a-politician-making-a-spee_2837610.jpg) > [You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/you-have-to-get-past-the-idea-that-music-has-to-be-one-thing-to-be/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfb/jerry-garcia-2346_alive_you-have-to-get-past-the-idea-that-music_1815532.jpg) > [I think that the revolution in music is over, and what's left is a mop-up action. It's a matter of the news…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/i-think-that-the-revolution-in-music-is-over-and-what-s-left-is-a-mop/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d28/jerry-garcia-2346_action_i-think-that-the-revolution-in-music-is_2584418.jpg) > [Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/music-goes-way-back-before-language-does-and-music-is-like-the-key-to/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a18/jerry-garcia-2346_age_music-goes-way-back-before-language-does_1647733.jpg) > [Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/music-is-a-universal-language-insofar-as-you-don-t-need-to-know/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e9/jerry-garcia-2346_culture_music-is-a-universal-language-insofar-as_1758330.jpg) ## Other authors on Music is ## More by Jerry Garcia > [once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/once-in-awhile-you-get-shown-the-light-in-the-strangest-of-places-if/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) > [To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/to-me-that-s-the-key-thing-the-pursuit-of-happiness-that-s-the-basic/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) > [“A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle To a double-e waterfall over my back”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/a-leaf-of-all-colors-plays-a-golden-string-fiddle-to-a-double-e/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) > [Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/some-things-may-work-but-they-definitely-won-t-work-every-time-some/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) > [It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/it-s-odd-that-there-is-a-high-level-of-appreciation-of-nature-there/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) > [If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/if-you-think-of-music-as-a-universal-language-it-still-has-some-very/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) > [You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/you-have-to-be-ready-and-also-you-have-to-discard-notions-that-are/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) > [If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/if-you-are-picking-the-lesser-of-two-evils-you-are-still-picking-evil/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) > [Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/our-strong-suit-is-what-we-do-and-our-audience/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) > [And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/and-for-me-there-s-still-more-material-than-20-lifetimes-that-i-can/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) > [It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now ...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/it-s-much-too-late-to-do-anything-about-rock-roll-now/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) > [Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/yeah-i-think-we-have-to-if-we-want-our-shows-to-be-if-we-want-the/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) > [You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/you-ain-t-gonna-learn-what-you-don-t-wanna-know/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) > [America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/america-is-still-mostly-xenophobic-and-racist-that-s-the-nature-of/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) > [Nothing left to do but smile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/nothing-left-to-do-but-smile/) [Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/music-is/jerry-garcia/#itemlist", "name": "10 Music is Quotes By Jerry Garcia", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Magic is what we do. 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