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.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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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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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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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… 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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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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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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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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