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 GARCIAThe implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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