The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
JERRY GARCIAIf you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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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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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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 didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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