Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
JERRY GARCIAIn 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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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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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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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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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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