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.
JERRY GARCIAThe thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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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 mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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 think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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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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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’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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