You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
JERRY GARCIAThere’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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