Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
JERRY GARCIAEach 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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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.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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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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