If 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.
JERRY GARCIAThe great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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