I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
JERRY GARCIAThere’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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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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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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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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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 were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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