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?’
JERRY GARCIAWhat 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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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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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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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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The 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.
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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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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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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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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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