I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
JERRY GARCIAIf 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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