All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
JERRY GARCIABlah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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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 a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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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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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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