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 dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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