And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
JERRY GARCIANobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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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 know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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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?
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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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