The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
JERRY GARCIAYou 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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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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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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