The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
JERRY GARCIARun faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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 have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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