A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
JERRY GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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 think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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