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.
JERRY GARCIAWhat is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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