We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
JERRY GARCIAThe great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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… 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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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