Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIAWe would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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 mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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