If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
JERRY GARCIAThere’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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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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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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