Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
JERRY GARCIAAnd as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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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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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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