You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
JERRY GARCIAThe thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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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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