American society has gone completely into denial.
JERRY GARCIAWe 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?
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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