You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
JERRY GARCIATo be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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 we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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