The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
JERRY GARCIAWe’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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