Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
JERRY GARCIAWe were just in line to see what was going to happen.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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 great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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 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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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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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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