A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
JERRY GARCIAThe result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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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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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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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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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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