There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
JERRY GARCIAIt doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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