What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
JERRY GARCIANobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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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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