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.
JERRY GARCIAI know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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