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.
JERRY GARCIAFor me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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