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?
JERRY GARCIAIf 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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