The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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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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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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