The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
JERRY GARCIAAnd as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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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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