What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
JERRY GARCIAThe nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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 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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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.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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 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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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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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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