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.
JERRY GARCIAMagic is what we do, music is how we do it.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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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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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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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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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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