Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
JERRY GARCIAMusic goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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