We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
JERRY GARCIANothing left to do but smile.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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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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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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 implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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