Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
JERRY GARCIAIn this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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… 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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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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 great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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