Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
JERRY GARCIAIf you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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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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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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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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