Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
JERRY GARCIAYou need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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