If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
JERRY GARCIAEverybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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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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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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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