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 GARCIASome things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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