We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
JERRY GARCIAWhat 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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 were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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