You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
JERRY GARCIARun faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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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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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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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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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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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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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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