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.
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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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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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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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