It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
JERRY GARCIAThe great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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