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.
JERRY GARCIASometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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I 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.
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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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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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