What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
JERRY GARCIANow 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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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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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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