Listening. 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.
JERRY GARCIAWe 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?
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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 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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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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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… 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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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