Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
JERRY GARCIAAmerica is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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 thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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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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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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