I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
JERRY GARCIAYou ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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I 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.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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