The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
JERRY GARCIAI think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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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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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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