Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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