Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
JERRY GARCIAThe bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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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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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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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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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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 think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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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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