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.
JERRY GARCIARun faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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 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.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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