What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
JERRY GARCIAI don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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