For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
JERRY GARCIAWhat a long strange trip it’s been.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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