I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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