All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
JERRY GARCIASo every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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 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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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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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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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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