As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
JERRY GARCIAIf the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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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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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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