Too much of a good thing is just about right
JERRY GARCIAIf 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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 turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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