Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
JERRY GARCIASomebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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