All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
JERRY GARCIAIt’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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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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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?’
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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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