If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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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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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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