Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
JERRY GARCIAAnd for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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