America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
JERRY GARCIAIf 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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 satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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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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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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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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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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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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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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 world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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