For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
JERRY GARCIAThe pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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