If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
JERRY GARCIAEvery silver lining has a touch of grey.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Nobody 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?’
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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 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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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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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 listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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 mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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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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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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