Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
JERRY GARCIAI think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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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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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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