In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
JERRY GARCIAThe world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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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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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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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 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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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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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