I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
JERRY GARCIAHow many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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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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… 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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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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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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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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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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