Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIAHunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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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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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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