The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
JERRY GARCIAThe Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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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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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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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.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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