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?
JERRY GARCIAWe’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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