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.
JERRY GARCIAI’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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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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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.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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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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