The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
JERRY GARCIAThe dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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.
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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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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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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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It 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.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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