We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
JERRY GARCIAAs long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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