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.
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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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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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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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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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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