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.
JERRY GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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