And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
JERRY GARCIALive life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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 dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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