For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
JERRY GARCIAYou have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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 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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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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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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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 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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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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