All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
JERRY GARCIANobody 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?’
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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… 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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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.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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