The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
JERRY GARCIAIf we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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