Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
JERRY GARCIAPeople 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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What 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.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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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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The 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.
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