I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
JERRY GARCIAThe Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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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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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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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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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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