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.
JERRY GARCIAThe thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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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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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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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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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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