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.
JERRY GARCIAEverybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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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 you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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