I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
JERRY GARCIAGetting 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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