All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
JERRY GARCIAA simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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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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.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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