How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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… 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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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