All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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