Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIANobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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