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.
JERRY GARCIAThere 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Sometimes 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.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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