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.
JERRY GARCIADone time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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 Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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