Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
JERRY GARCIAI have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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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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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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