There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
JERRY GARCIAIf you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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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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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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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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