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.
JERRY GARCIARun faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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