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 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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 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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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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