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.
JERRY GARCIAI’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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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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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you 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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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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 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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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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