Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
JERRY GARCIAPeople 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.
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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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