For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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