I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
JERRY GARCIAI know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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I 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.
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Nobody 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?’
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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