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.
JERRY GARCIAI’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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