I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
JERRY GARCIAThere 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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