We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
JERRY GARCIAI Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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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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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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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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