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?’
JERRY GARCIAI think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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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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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 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.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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