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.
JERRY GARCIAWhat we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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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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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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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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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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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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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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