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.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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 have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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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 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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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As 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.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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