Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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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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Nobody 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?’
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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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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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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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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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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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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