Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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 like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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