I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me 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 mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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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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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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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.
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