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.
JERRY GARCIATruth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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What 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.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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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 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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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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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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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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