What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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 don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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