Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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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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