I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
JERRY GARCIA
What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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