People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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 is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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