And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
JERRY GARCIASome things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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 like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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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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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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