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.
JERRY GARCIAIf you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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 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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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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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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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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