And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
JERRY GARCIAYou need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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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 me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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