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.
JERRY GARCIAThe nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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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 think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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