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.
JERRY GARCIAIf you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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