The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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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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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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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