Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
JERRY GARCIAWhat’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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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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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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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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 think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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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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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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