I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
JERRY GARCIABlah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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