If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
JERRY GARCIAI think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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