I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
JERRY GARCIAConstantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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.
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