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.
JERRY GARCIAEach 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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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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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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