A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
JERRY GARCIAWhat we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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.
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