We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
JERRY GARCIAThe pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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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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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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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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