To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
JERRY GARCIAYou ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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