For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
JERRY GARCIAWhistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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