It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
JERRY GARCIAEverybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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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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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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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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