The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
JERRY GARCIAIf you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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