An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
JERRY GARCIAAnd as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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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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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