I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
JERRY GARCIAWhat’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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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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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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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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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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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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