I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIAAll I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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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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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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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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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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