I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
JERRY GARCIAAs long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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