It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
JERRY GARCIARun faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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 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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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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