You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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