I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
JERRY GARCIAYou don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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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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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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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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