Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
JERRY GARCIAIf you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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