If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
JERRY GARCIANobody 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?’
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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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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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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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.
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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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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