The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
JERRY GARCIAWe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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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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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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 think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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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 me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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