To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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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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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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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