It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
JERRY GARCIAThe nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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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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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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 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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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