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 GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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 think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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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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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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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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