The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
JERRY GARCIACats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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