In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
JERRY GARCIAThe satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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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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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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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Nobody 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?’
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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