What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
JERRY GARCIAIt turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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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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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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