If 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.
JERRY GARCIAListening. 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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